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Gunner

nounproper nounattested in dialogue

Someone connected with Arsenal Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

noun

  1. 1

    Someone connected with Arsenal Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

    The Gunners dominated for long periods but, against the run of play, Denilson fouled Max Gradel and Robert Snodgrass put Leeds ahead from the spot.

Etymology

From gunner, in reference to the weapons held in an arsenal.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

Forms

plural
Gunners
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).