gun

noun

1. 1

   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.

   They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.

   Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.

   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.

2. 2

   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.

3. 3

   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.

4. 4

   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.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   figurativeA 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

   It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.[…]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.

7. 7

   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

   nail gun

8. 8

   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

   grease gun

9. 9

   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 price-label gun

   The piercing gun cannot be disinfected and therefore there is a risk of transmitting hepatitis and other infections.

10. 10

    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).

    2000, Drew Kampion, surfline.com by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii gun was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore.

11. 11

    A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.

    The glider gun on the bottom of the NOT circuit emits a continuous stream of gliders, while the data stream source emits a glider only when there is a value of 1 in the stream[…].

    It would be especially interesting if someone can find an "airplane gun", which generates airplanes at regular intervals.

    Greene's period-416 2c/5 spaceship gun

12. 12

    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.

    […] we had one lawman - Sheriff Dirty Herwick, "the slowest gun in the West." Dirty was a kindly man, a java addict whose knees knocked at the sight of blood. Back then, we winched our own car wrecks out of ravines and chased away mountain lions with kitchen brooms.

    "I must say, I quite enjoy having the best detective in the business, and the fastest gun in the West, on my payroll." "First of all," Clint said tightly, "I'm not the fastest gun in the West, and second, I'm not on your payroll." Royce held up both of his hands. "I didn't mean to offend you, sir[…]"

    "They say he's the fastest gun in the whole goddamn world." "I thought Blackie was supposed to be the best," Harlow remarked. “That's what all you chaps keep tellin' me." "Blackie is the fastest gun in the Oklahoma Territory,"[…]

13. 13

    An electron gun.

    The problem is figuring out how to get the electrons from the red gun to hit only the red phosphors, the electrons from the blue gun to hit only the blue phosphors, and so on.

14. 14

    The biceps.

15. 15

    Violent blasts of wind.

16. 16

    slangSomeone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, skilful, or cool.

verb

1. 1

   To shoot with a gun.

   What's the use of foolishness like calling a gentleman bad names when he can gun you in the dark and you're no good even at striking matches?

2. 2

   To cause to speed up.

   He gunned the engine.

3. 3

   informalTo offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).

   We're all gunning for you.

4. 4

   informal(gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.

   Australian John Landy, one of Bannister’s rivals also gunning to break the four-minute barrier, took more than a second off the Briton’s time in Turku, Finland, a few weeks later.

5. 5

   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.

6. 6

   To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.

7. 7

   slangSynonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).

   […] all inmates participated in such conduct, and […] "the inmates gunned only female staff, not the all-male security staff," he said.

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteA magsman or street thief.

   To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.

verb

1. 1

   Variant of going toNonstandard spelling of going to.

   I'm gun go get my coat from da closet.

Forms

plural

guns

past tense

gunned

past participle

gunned

present participle

gunning

third person singular

guns