potshot noun 2adjective 1verb 1forms 5 noun2 •A shot taken at an easy or random target.Bannister leaped up, ran lightly across the intervening space, and with his repeater took a potshot at the galloping horseman. — 1908 •(figurative) Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot. adjective1 •(slang, no longer used) Drunk. verb1 •To fire potshots. formspotshotted · potshotting · potshots · more potshot · most potshot