shotgun
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
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Etymology: From shot + gun. Front passenger seat sense comes from ride shotgun.
Compound parts: shot
gun
Inflected forms:
form: shotguns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shot-gun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shotguns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shotgunning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shotgunned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shotgunned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shot-gun
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The farmer's son brought home a Thanksgiving turkey from the wild that he killed with his shotgun.
You can't talk to a man / With a shotgun in his hand
An unusual custom is followed at Llangennith, when shotguns are fired at a wedding - to scare off evil spirits from the newlyweds.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: I call shotgun!
I call shotgun!
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.
gloss: A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
pos: noun
tags: Southern-US
US
countable
especially
uncountable
examples: Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: shotgun cartridges
shotgun seat
gloss: Relating to the threat of force or dubious means.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: shotgun wedding
shotgun diplomacy
gloss: Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: shotgun marketing
shotgun approach
gloss: To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: High as fuck, I light it up / Got pre-rolls for the whole month / She don't smoke but when I roll one / We shotgun the whole blunt
gloss: To verbally lay claim to (something)
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: I got a day off because I shotgunned it.
gloss: To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
examples: An actual physical piece of paper shows that you're not just shotgunning out queries to every agent on the planet.
Science fiction writers are “shotgunning ideas” through their works, he said, and people tend to recall the pellets that hit the target.
It's like they are on a generic mailing list and some photographer is just shotgunning cards out into the world with no thought as to who they are actually going to.
gloss: To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Understand the problem before fixing it. About the only scenario where shotgunning is useful is if there is a shorted IC and you cannot tell which one it is.
Derived words: double-barrelled shotgun
pump-action shotgun
ride shotgun
sawn-off shotgun
sawed-off shotgun
shotgun approach
shotgun cloning
shotgun debugging
shotgun double
shotgun fungus
shotgunlike
shotgun marriage
shotgun mic
shotgun microphone
shotgunner
shotgun offense
shotgun pleading
shotgun proteomics
shotgun sequencing
shotgun shack
shotgun start
shotgun surgery
shotgun wedding
shotty
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