shotgun

Speech parts

1. shotgun - Noun

2. shotgun - Verb

Meaning

A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

scattergun leon dirk harpoon cleaver cannon cutlass gat make force knife revolver carbine hatchet blaster
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Antonyms

highwayman marauder bandit allow rat enemy
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Hypernyms

piece firearm small-arm

Hyponyms

sawed-off shotgun fowling piece

Phrases with the word

shotgun wedding riding shotgun automatic shotgun auto shotgun long shotgun microphone double shotgun

Derivatives

shotgunned Shotgunning

Anagrams

gunshot uhtsong unghost

Examples

Over 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

Close letter words and terms

shotel shoter shotfirer shotgun ammunition shotgun approach shotgun cloning