gun.
A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
Meaning & usage
A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.
Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised his gun at the approaching deer.
A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot. A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot. A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot. A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot. A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more.
A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot. A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.
21-gun salute
A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm. Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
air-pressure pellet gun
zipgun
A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm. A device or tool that projects a substance.
squirt gun
spray gun
A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm. A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
a rivet gun
screw gun
A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.
Some said that the cowboy was the fastest gun in the West.
An electron gun.
The biceps.
Violent blasts of wind.
Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, skilful, or cool.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéntis Proto-Germanic *gunþiz Old Norse gunnr Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂tís Proto-Germanic *hildiz Old Norse hildr Old Norse Gunnhildrder. Middle English gunne English gun From Middle English gunne, gonne, possibly from Gunnhild, a female given name formerly used as a nickname for engines of war (compare Nordic Gunn, a female name meaning “battle”). The name is composed of the Norse elements gunnr and hildr, both meaning "battle".
To shoot with a gun.
To cause to speed up.
He gunned the engine.
To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
We're all gunning for you.
To strongly desire or seek, and make a great effort to obtain (something which one is 'gunning for' or 'gunning to do').
To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.
To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéntis Proto-Germanic *gunþiz Old Norse gunnr Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂tís Proto-Germanic *hildiz Old Norse hildr Old Norse Gunnhildrder. Middle English gunne English gun From Middle English gunne, gonne, possibly from Gunnhild, a female given name formerly used as a nickname for engines of war (compare Nordic Gunn, a female name meaning “battle”). The name is composed of the Norse elements gunnr and hildr, both meaning "battle".
A magsman or street thief.
Where this word comes from
Related to ganef.
Nonstandard spelling of going to.
I'm gun go get my coat from da closet.
Where this word comes from
From gunna, from gonna, from going to.
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