run and gun

Speech parts

1. run and gun - Adjective

2. run and gun - Verb

Meaning

(basketball, often attributive) To move the ball quickly and shoot often.
This team likes to run and gun.
They're really running and gunning now.
This coach likes to play a run-and-gun offense.

(idiomatic) To do something hastily and with great energy.

(video games) In which the player's character runs on foot and uses a projectile weapon.

(basketball) Alternative form of run and gun

Alternative names

run-and-gun

Examples

Even still, McCoy calls this run-and-gun era “some of the most fun times of my life.” Source: Internet

It’s a classic run-and-gun adventure, a throwback to NES-era offerings in terms of its action, but it’s the 1930s cartoon stylings that have folks gobsmacked. Source: Internet

One great example of where this would be useful is in first person shooters (FPS.) When you're sniping, you'll probably want a different DPI setting than when you run-and-gun. Source: Internet

Not as popular as run-and-gun slayer to be sure. Source: Internet

Predictably, the game will be an open world, first-person run-and-gun affair. Source: Internet

What remains is a competent, soulless run-and-gun experience—or rather, lumber-and-gun. Source: Internet

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