gun 
gun (gun)
noun
- a weapon consisting of a metal tube from which a projectile is discharged by the force of an explosive; specif.,
- technically, a heavy weapon with a relatively long barrel fixed in a mount, as a cannon or machine gun
- a rifle
- ☆ popularly a pistol or revolver
- any similar device not discharged by an explosive an air gun
- a discharge of a gun in signaling or saluting
- anything like a gun in shape or use
- ☆ Slang gunman (sense )
- Slang the throttle of an engine
Etymology: ME gunne, gonne, contr. < gonnilde, a 14th-c. cannon < ON Gunnhildr, fem. name (< gunnr, older form of guthr, war + hildr, battle)
intransitive verb gunned, gun′·ning
to shoot or hunt with a gun; go shooting or hunting
transitive verb
- ☆ Informal to shoot (a person) intentionally: with down
- Slang to advance the throttle of (an engine) so as to increase the speed
big gun
Slang- an important and influential person
- a high-ranking military officer
give it the gun
☆Etymology: from the resemblance of early airplane accelerators to the trigger of a gun
Slang to cause something to start or gain speed
go great guns
Slang to act with speed and efficiency
gun for
☆- to hunt for with a gun
- to look for in order to shoot or harm
- Slang to try to get; seek
jump the gun
Informal- to begin a race before the signal has been given
- to begin anything before the proper time
spike someone's guns
to frustrate or defeat someone
stick to one's guns
Informal to hold one's position under attack; not withdraw or retreat; be firm
under the gun
Informal in a tense, demanding situation or threatened state, often one involving a deadline
gun
n.
A cannon
piece, ordnance, heavy ordnance, rifle. see artillery 1, cannon, rocket.Types of large guns include: long gun, siege gun, howitzer, mortar, antitank gun, culverin, field piece, bazooka, pom-pom, antiaircraft gun, ack ack*;
A portable firearm].
Types of hand-held guns include: rifle, automatic rifle, semiautomatic rifle, repeating rifle, repeater, recoilless rifle, air rifle, BB gun, air gun, shotgun, sawed-off shotgun, double-barreled shotgun, magazine shotgun, pump-action gun, fowling piece, musket, flintlock, wheel lock, hand gun, muzzle-loader, breech-loader, squirrel gun, needle gun, blunderbuss, carbine, machine gun, submachine gun, Uzi, AK-47, M-1, M-14, M-16, machine pistol, long rifle, laser gun, matchlock, revolver, pistol, automatic, semiautomatic, 9-mm., derringer, horse pistol, gat*, persuader*, rod*, piece*, heater*, burp gun*, Saturday night special*, zip gun*;
A device suggestive of a gun
spray gun, air brush, grease gun, atomizer, syringe, tranquilizer gun.
give it the gun*
go great guns*
jump the gun*
stick to one's guns
Converse of object
- jump: It just feels like jumping the gun a bit to say no at this point.
- mount: At present there are only two guns mounted upon the ramparts.
- carry: In the main they like to carry guns muzzle up.
Preposition: in
- turret: It has massive armaments: ten.50 inch machine guns in turrets in both its upper and lower fuselage.
Adjective modifier
- loaded: In the hands of these ' leaders ' , the ' vanguard party ' is akin to a loaded gun.
- submachine: Inheritance shoots out What we have here is a Thompson submachine gun.
- naval: A naval gun for boat, ship or field.
- 20mm: We went to view the phalanx in action as well as seeing the 20mm gun in action.
- heavy: The allied side lacked heavy guns, which they could not have taken all the way from England.
Modifies a noun
- emplacement: These gun emplacements were inside on two levels ( lower & upper gun floors ).
- turret: This was a very exposed location, apart from the 8 gun turrets, the remaining guns had very little protective armor.
- barrel: Built into every one were safety devices; the fuse could not be armed without having been fired from a gun barrel.
- crime: The City of London police force boasts more than fourteen officers to gun crime events.
Noun used with modifier
- antiaircraft: In the last attacks in 1998, I was at the soccer when the antiaircraft guns started shooting at US aircraft over us.
- anti-tank: Mk 2D 40mm Vickers anti-tank guns ( two under the wing ).
- machine: I saw police armed with machine guns last week in Brighton.
- stun: You ask your friend to buy a large stash of mace, pepper spray and stun guns next time he goes to USA 29.
- sub-machine: A policeman with a sub-machine gun is confronted by a hostile crowd.
- Bren: On the ranges I managed to obtain good scoring, more so on the rifle, yet my favorite was still the bren gun.
The healthiest situation in England, on Easthampstead Plain. Free run of Windsor Forest. TheTimes every morning. A double-barrelled gun and pointers, and leave to shoot three Wellington College boys a week (not more) in case black game was scarce.
She would write 8 or10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.
I'll give up my gun when you take it from my cold, dead hands.
To the Glorious,Pious, and Immortal Memory of King William theThird,Prince of Orange, who delivered us from Popes and Popery, Knaves and Knavery, Slaves and Slavery, Brass Money, and Wooden Shoes, and He that Will Not Take thisToast May He Be Damn'd,Cramm'd, and Jamm'd Down the Great Gun of Athlone, and the Gun Fired in the Pope's Belly, and the Pope Fired in the Devil's Belly, and the Devil Fired into Hell, and the Door Lock'd, and the Key Forever in the Pocket of a Stout Orangeman. And Here's a Fart for the Bishop of Cork!
A gun gives you the body, not the bird.
Here's the one who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he don't know what it means.
Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim Gun, and they have not.
You're not a nice guy if you have a gun, even if you are a nice guy.
Some thirty inches from my nose The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between Is private pagus or demesne. Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes I beckon you to fraternize, Beware of rudely crossing it: I have no gun, but I can spit.
Every Communist must grasp the truth that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
I come from a state where gun control is just how steady you hold your weapon.
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