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shotgun
English
Alternative forms
- shot-gun
Etymology
From shot +? gun. Front passenger seat sense comes from ride shotgun.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???t??n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???t??n/
- Hyphenation: shot?gun
Noun
shotgun (countable and uncountable, plural shotguns)
- (firearms) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
- Synonym: scattergun
- (slang) The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat.
- Synonym: death seat
- (US, especially Southern US) A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
- Synonyms: shotgun house, shotgun shack
- (American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense.
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the threat of force or dubious means.
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
shotgun (third-person singular simple present shotguns, present participle shotgunning, simple past and past participle shotgunned)
- (slang, smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
- (transitive, informal) To verbally lay claim to (something)
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
- (US, slang) To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
- (US, slang) To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
- (computing, slang) To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.
Further reading
- shotgun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- shotgun house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- gunshot, hognuts, hotguns, hutongs, noughts, unghost
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shottie
English
Etymology
shot +? -ie
Noun
shottie (plural shotties)
- (Australia, Scotland, informal) A shotgun
Anagrams
- hotties
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