︎shot out
adj.— «T-Bird was shot out. That’s a street term that means “lots of fun.” She was good people.» —“Body found riddled with stab wounds” by Ken Serrano in Perth Amboy, N.J. Home News Tribune (East Brunswick, N.J.) Aug. 7, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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