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• scot
  scot

  noun

  a payment or charge.
• Scot
  Scot

  noun

  a native or inhabitant of Scotland.
• Scot.
  Scot.

  abbreviation

  Scotch.

scot

¹ American  

[skot] / skɒt /

noun

History/Historical.

1. a payment or charge.

2. one's share of a payment or charge.

3. an assessment or tax.

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Scot ² American  

[skot] / skɒt /

noun

• Scots
  plural

1. a native or inhabitant of Scotland.

2. one of an ancient Gaelic people who came from northern Ireland about the 6th century a.d. and settled in the northwestern part of Great Britain, and after whom Scotland was named.

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Scot ³ American  

abbreviation

1. Scots.

2. Scottish.

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Scot. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. Scotch.

2. Scotland.

3. Scottish.

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Scot. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Scotch (whisky)

2. Scotland

3. Scottish

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Scot ² British  

/ skɒt /

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Scotland

2. a member of a tribe of Celtic raiders from the north of Ireland who carried out periodic attacks against the British mainland coast from the 3rd century _ad , eventually settling in N Britain during the 5th and 6th centuries

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scot Idioms  

1. see get off (scot-free).

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Commonly Confused

See Scotch.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Scots
  plural

Etymology

Origin of scot¹

1200–50; Middle English < Old Norse skattr tax, treasure; cognate with Old English gescot payment

Origin of Scot²

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English Scottas (plural), from Late Latin Scottī “the Irish”

Example Sentences

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scot Scot Scot. Scots

"If everything is a scandal or an outrage, nothing is, which means that those who deserve to be held to account get off scot free"

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

ULA’s design means large losses may be heavily taxed while big gains go scot free.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2025

You’re not going to get away with deceiving your partner scot free—your conscience, for one thing, won’t allow it.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2021

So either the wrongdoers got off scot free, or the SEC shouldn’t have brought the case it did against the company.

From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 10, 2011

And the big yeller dog that had caused all the trouble got off scot free.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

Enter James Law, a Scot who had been recruited in 1868 by Ezra Cornell, the co-founder of the eponymous university, to join the faculty as a professor of veterinary medicine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

The name of a Scot who died in the Holocaust after refusing to abandon Jewish children in her care has been added to a special memorial wall at Auschwitz.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

“The entirety of our focus is to get to this transaction and get through it,” LIV chief executive Scot O’Neil said last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

With a notepad in hand and junior coaches acting as blockers, the Scot - who had a successful spell at Aston Villa - barked instructions throughout sessions.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

“The Devil Hisself,” said Brian Tailor, who was a Scot and so had reason to feel that way.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

"I'm married to a Bengali Scot. My son is going out with a Kurdish refugee."

From BBC ● May 31, 2016

Chardy converts with a superb point, pulling Murray all over the court before nailing a cross-court forehand past the Scot. 1-1 in the first, two breaks already.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2015

Saunders may have learned it from a London Scot. l.

From Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles by Various

From commère comes Scot. cummer or kimmer— "A canty quean was Kate, and a special cummer of my ain."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

Calderwood's Hist. of the Ch. of Scot. p.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

In a study by professor Neil Kirk, most Scottish participants assumed AI-generated Scottish Standard English or Dundonian Scots voices were human.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

In his most influential work, the Scots thinker united a set of economic precepts into a vision of human flourishing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

When it came to the economic side of Scottish politics, both candidates expressed the view that some Scots – especially middle earners – are paying too much tax.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Scots singer Cammy Barnes is to play Razorlight's spot on the main stage.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Today she wore flame-red hair and freckled skin as if she'd escaped a farm somewhere in the Empire of Greater Scots Ireland.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton