Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Without having to pay.
- adverb Without incurring any penalty or punishment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from payment of scot; untaxed.
- Unhurt; clear; safe. In this sense also
shotfree , with the intention of a pun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Free from payment of scot; untaxed; hence, unhurt; clear; safe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb archaic Free of
scot , free oftax . - adverb colloquial Without
consequences orpenalties .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb free from harm or penalty
Etymologies
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Examples
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But Wall Street got off scot-free and homeowners facing foreclosure got only the "Home Affordable Modification Plan," which appears to have been little more than a political ploy to give the appearance the government was doing something at a time when the number of foreclosures was shooting through the roof.
Joseph A. Palermo: Party Like It's 1994 Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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But Wall Street got off scot-free and homeowners facing foreclosure got only the "Home Affordable Modification Plan," which appears to have been little more than a political ploy to give the appearance the government was doing something at a time when the number of foreclosures was shooting through the roof.
Joseph A. Palermo: Party Like It's 1994 Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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But Wall Street got off scot-free and homeowners facing foreclosure got only the "Home Affordable Modification Plan," which appears to have been little more than a political ploy to give the appearance the government was doing something at a time when the number of foreclosures was shooting through the roof.
Joseph A. Palermo: Party Like It's 1994 Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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But Wall Street got off scot-free and homeowners facing foreclosure got only the "Home Affordable Modification Plan," which appears to have been little more than a political ploy to give the appearance the government was doing something at a time when the number of foreclosures was shooting through the roof.
Joseph A. Palermo: Party Like It's 1994 Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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But Wall Street got off scot-free and homeowners facing foreclosure got only the "Home Affordable Modification Plan," which appears to have been little more than a political ploy to give the appearance the government was doing something at a time when the number of foreclosures was shooting through the roof.
Joseph A. Palermo: Party Like It's 1994 Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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But Wall Street got off scot-free and homeowners facing foreclosure got only the "Home Affordable Modification Plan," which appears to have been little more than a political ploy to give the appearance the government was doing something at a time when the number of foreclosures was shooting through the roof.
Joseph A. Palermo: Party Like It's 1994 Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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But Wall Street got off scot-free and homeowners facing foreclosure got only the "Home Affordable Modification Plan," which appears to have been little more than a political ploy to give the appearance the government was doing something at a time when the number of foreclosures was shooting through the roof.
Joseph A. Palermo: Party Like It's 1994 Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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Translation: with video surveillance available that clearly showed that the two accused committed the murder, the prosecution messed up and these murderers got off scot-free.
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But Wall Street got off scot-free and homeowners facing foreclosure got only the "Home Affordable Modification Plan," which appears to have been little more than a political ploy to give the appearance the government was doing something at a time when the number of foreclosures was shooting through the roof.
Joseph A. Palermo: Party Like It's 1994 Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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But Wall Street got off scot-free and homeowners facing foreclosure got only the "Home Affordable Modification Plan," which appears to have been little more than a political ploy to give the appearance the government was doing something at a time when the number of foreclosures was shooting through the roof.
Joseph A. Palermo: Party Like It's 1994 Joseph A. Palermo 2010
oroboros commented on the word scot-free
Without a scratch. See scotch.
May 1, 2007