gun

Plural: guns

Noun

• a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
• large but transportable armament
• a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
• a professional killer who uses a gun
• a hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine
• a pedal that controls the throttle valve
• the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies
  • "two runners started before the gun"
  • "a twenty gun salute"
• A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
• A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
• A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
• A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
• 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 projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
• A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
• A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
• A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
• A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
• 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.
• A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
• A device or tool that projects a substance.
• 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 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), particuarly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.
• An electron gun.
• The biceps.
• Violent blasts of wind.
• Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
• A magsman or street thief.

Verb

Verb Forms: gunned, gunning, guns

• To fire a gun; to accelerate an engine rapidly.
• shoot with a gun
• To cause to speed up.
• To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
• (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
• To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
• 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”).
• Nonstandard spelling of going to.

Examples

• a price-label gun
• a rivet gun
• air-pressure pellet gun
• grease gun
• Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.
• He decided to gun for the triple-word score, despite the risk of being challenged.
• He gunned the engine.
• He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.
• I'm gun go get my coat from da closet.
• Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised up his gun at the approaching deer.
• nail gun
• screw gun
• Some said that the cowboy was the fastest gun in the West.
• spray gun
• squirt gun
• We're all gunning for you.
• zipgun

Synonyms

accelerator, accelerator pedal, artillery, gas, gas pedal, grease-gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, heavy weapon, hired gun, hit man, hitman, ordnance, shooter, throttle, torpedo, triggerman, gun down

Related Words

HHT, scanner

Anagrams of gun