Describes a tool, component, or machine that has reached the absolute end of its service life. A part that is shot cannot be salvaged, rebuilt, or patched. It usually implies mechanical failure from severe wear, stripped threads, blown seals, or metal fatigue.
Throw that bearing in the scrap bin, the inner race is completely shot.
Never try to fix a part that a veteran tells you is shot; it is a waste of time and a safety risk.
Also heard as
- knackered
- fubar
Related terms
Same word, different worlds
One full stroke of a manual grease gun, the everyday unit for how much grease goes in.
Welding, Brazing & NDEShop word for a radiograph of a weld, or the act of X-raying it, as in the weld got shot.
Nuclear Safety & Radiation ProtectionA single industrial radiography exposure, used to x-ray a weld with a gamma source or X-ray tube.
Photonics & LasersA single laser pulse, especially from a high-energy or low-repetition-rate system.
NonwovensSmall beads or lumps of polymer that failed to form fibers and sit embedded in a meltblown web.