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      gun
      noun
      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 less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
      (colloquial, metonymic) 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.
      (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
      (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
      (figurative) 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 or tool that projects a substance.
      (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).
      (Australia, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
      (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
      (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
      (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
      (television) An electron gun.
      A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
      A Gbe language spoken in parts of Benin and Nigeria.
      (obsolete, slang) A magsman or street thief.
      verb
      (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
      (informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
      (transitive) To cause to speed up.
      To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
      To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
      (ambitransitive, US, prison slang, of a male prisoner) 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.
      Synonyms for gun
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      Words related to gun
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