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Answer for the clue "Spent the wad ", 4 letters:
shot

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Word definitions for shot in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shot \Shot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shotted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shotting .] To load with shot, as a gun. --Totten.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an attempt to score in a game (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand; "it took two strokes to get out of the bunker"; "a good shot require good balance and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A shot in ice hockey is an attempt by a player to score a goal by striking or snapping the puck with their stick in the direction of the net.

Usage examples of shot.

Coming abreast of each other, Harry held his fire, prepared to suffer the shots of the four-pounders.

Tooe shot through it, flipping over to bounce off the ceiling and accelerating down through the short cabin toward the control section.

I should have shot the bastard, Ace thought as he continued on to the bar.

There is a case on record of a boy of fourteen who was shot in the right shoulder, the bullet entering through the right upper border of the trapezius, two inches from the acromion process.

There were still some addax antelope down in the dunes, but mostly the local sheiks had sportingly shot them out, using high-powered rifles with telescopic sights from the backs of Land Rovers.

Such were the remonstrances made to his catholic majesty with respect to the illegality of the prize, which the French East India company asserted was taken within shot of a neutral port, that the Penthievre was first violently wrested out of the hands of the captors, then detained as a deposit, with sealed hatches, and a Spanish guard on board, till the claims of both parties could be examined, and at last adjudged to be an illegal capture, and consequently restored to the French, to the great disappointment of the owners of the privateer.

The seventeen doomed men were offered a meal and an opportunity to speak with a priest before they were lined up along an adobe wall and shot.

I must confess she did not seem at all sorry to have me taken off her hands, for after cautioning me to beware of a number of things I did not so much as know by name, she shot off like a respectable old aerolite with a black trail streaming out behind.

He told himself that it was the other aeronaut that had been shot in the fight and fallen out of the saddle as he strove to land.

The rest had been shot and slashed to pieces by Afghani tribesmen, the women with them killed or taken hostage.

Any honest afrit would by now have grown wings and shot down to find me, but without a nearby ledge or roof to hop to, the skeleton was stymied.

McDermitt was the first SEAL down the hatch of the aft escape trunk after Morris shot the Chinese guard who had been lying in ambush inside.

A few moments later Aristarchi had placed her in his boat, the heavy bundle of spoils lay at her feet, and the craft shot swiftly from the door of the house of the Agnus Dei.

A sudden, agonizing fiery ball of pain shot through him, choking his words, making him stagger slightly.

Several pigs, agoutis, kangaroos, and other rodents were seen, also two or three koalas, at which Pencroft longed to have a shot.