shot glass

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   a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey

   Synonymsjiggerpony

   Broaderglass

Questions about shot glass

What does shot glass mean?

shot glass means "a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey".

What is another word for shot glass?

Close synonyms include jigger, pony. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shot glass a common word?

shot glass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.