shotgun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɒtɡʌn/
ipa: /ˈʃɑtɡʌn/
rhymes: -ɒtɡʌn
rhymes: -ɑtɡʌn
Forms: form: shotguns
form: shot-gun
Etymology: From shot + gun. Front passenger seat sense comes from ride shotgun.
Senses: examples: text: Meat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun.
text: You can't talk to a man / With a shotgun in his hand
ref: 1971, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, in Tapestry, Ode Records:
text: An unusual custom is followed at Llangennith, when shotguns are fired at a wedding - to scare off evil spirits from the newlyweds.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 258:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: scattergun
hypernyms: long gun
longarm
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firearm
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gun
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ranged weapon
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weapon
coordinate_terms: rifle
pellet gun
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handgun
pistol
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glosses: A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
examples: text: I call shotgun!
translation: I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.
english: I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.
text: I call shotgun!
translation: I claim the right to this bedroom etc.
english: I claim the right to this bedroom etc.
text: We rode our bikes to it this morning—me, two of my brothers, four other neighborhood kids who were ready to be baptized, plus my father and some other neighborhood adults riding shotgun.
ref: 1993, Octavia Butler, chapter 2, in The Parable of the Sower:
synonyms: death seat
glosses: 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. Can also be used in situations of claiming other resources such as bedrooms.
examples: text: Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.
synonyms: shotgun house
shotgun shack
glosses: A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: 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.
examples: text: shotgun cartridges
text: shotgun seat
glosses: Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense.
raw_tags: as a modifier
examples: text: shotgun wedding
text: shotgun diplomacy
glosses: Relating to the threat of force or dubious means.
raw_tags: as a modifier
examples: text: shotgun marketing
text: shotgun approach
glosses: Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result.
raw_tags: as a modifier
Derived terms: double-barrelled shotgun
pump-action shotgun
ride shotgun
sawn-off shotgun
sawed-off shotgun
shotgun approach
shotgun cloning
shotgun debugging
shotgun double
shotgun fungus
shotgun marriage
shotgun mic
shotgun microphone
shotgun offense
shotgun pleading
shotgun proteomics
shotgun sequencing
shotgun shack
shotgun start
shotgun surgery
shotgun wedding
shotty