Usually means: Exempt from punishment or consequences.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word scot-free:

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  1. scot-free: Merriam-Webster
  2. scot-free: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scot-free: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scot-free, scot-free: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scot-free: Wordnik
  6. scot-free: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. scot-free: Wiktionary
  8. scot-free: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. scot-free: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. scot-free: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. scot-free: Dictionary.com
  12. scot-free: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. scot-free: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Scot-free: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. scot-free: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. scot-free: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Scot-free: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. scot-free: FreeDictionary.org
  19. scot-free: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scot-free)

▸ adverb:  (colloquial) Without consequences or penalties, free without payment.
▸ adjective:  (archaic) Free of scot, free of tax.

Similar:
scotfree, free of charge, free, no strings attached, guiltfree, taxlessly, guilt-free, impunely, pro bono, scathelessly, more...

Opposite:
captured, arrested, apprehended, caught, charged, convicted, guilty


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Similar:
scotfree, free of charge, free, no strings attached, guiltfree, taxlessly, guilt-free, impunely, pro bono, scathelessly, more...

Opposite:
captured, arrested, apprehended, caught, charged, convicted, guilty



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