| gun | |
| 1. n. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon. | |
| 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 up his gun at the approaching deer. | |
| 2. n. A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol or Derringer. | |
| 3. n. A less portable, long firearm, bullet or projectile firing; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun. | |
| 4. n. (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.JP 1-02. Department of | |
| 5. n. (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar. | |
| 6. n. (figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.Wp | |
| 7. n. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm. | |
| There are some guns that are not designed for killing. | |
| 8. n. Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube. | |
| air-pressure pellet gun; air rifle; BB gun; zipgun; nail gun; a potato gun | |
| 9. n. A device or tool that projects a substance. | |
| a squirt gun; a spray gun; a grease gun | |
| 10. n. A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it. | |
| a rivet gun; a screw gun; a price-label gun | |
| 11. n. (surfing) 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). | |
| 12. n. (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns. | |
| 13. n. (colloquial, metonym) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun. | |
| 14. n. (colloquial, usually plural) The biceps. | |
| 15. n. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind. | |
| 16. v. (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm. | |
| He gunned down the hitmen. | |
| The CEO gunned down that idea before we could present it to the board. | |
| 17. v. To speed something up. | |
| He gunned the engine. | |
| 18. v. To offer vigorous support to a person or cause. | |
| He’s gunning for you. | |
| 19. v. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone. | |
| He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party. | |
| 20. v. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning. | |
| 21. v. nonstandard spelling of going to | |
| I'm gun go get da gun from da closet. | |
