1. shotgun - Noun
2. shotgun - Verb
A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOver the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. Terry Pratchett
You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand. Carole King
It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun. Larry Wall
We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back. Barack Obama
More drama than a junior prom, a shotgun wedding, and a paternity test all rolled into one! Rachel Maddow
Like I said: the only god I believe in is coming back. And when he arrives, I'll be waiting with a shotgun. Charles Stross