gun

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy

   A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.

   • Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.
2. 2

   A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.

   • air-pressure pellet gun
   • zipgun
   • nail gun
3. 3

   A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a…

   A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).

   • 2000, Drew Kampion, surfline.com by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii gun was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore.
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   1. 4

      A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.

      • The glider gun on the bottom of the NOT circuit emits a continuous stream of gliders, while the data stream source emits a glider only when there is a value of 1 in the stream[…].
      • It would be especially interesting if someone can find an "airplane gun", which generates airplanes at regular intervals.
      • Greene's period-416 2c/5 spaceship gun
   2. 5

      A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with…

      A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.

      • Some said that the cowboy was the fastest gun in the West.
   3. 6

      An electron gun.

      • The problem is figuring out how to get the electrons from the red gun to hit only the red phosphors, the electrons from the blue gun to hit only the blue phosphors, and so on.
   4. 7

      The biceps.

   5. 8

      Violent blasts of wind.

   6. 9

      Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, skilful, or cool.

   7. 10

      To shoot with a gun.

      • What's the use of foolishness like calling a gentleman bad names when he can gun you in the dark and you're no good even at striking matches?
   8. 11

      To cause to speed up.

      • He gunned the engine.
   9. 12

      To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).

      • We're all gunning for you.
   10. 13

       (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.

       • Australian John Landy, one of Bannister’s rivals also gunning to break the four-minute barrier, took more than a second off the Briton’s time in Turku, Finland, a few weeks later.
   11. 14

       To seek to attack someone

       To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.

       • He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.
   12. 15

       To practice fowling or hunting small game

       To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.

   13. 16

       Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone —…

       Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).

       • […] all inmates participated in such conduct, and […] "the inmates gunned only female staff, not the all-male security staff," he said.
   14. 17

       A magsman or street thief.

       • To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.
   15. 18

       Nonstandard spelling of going to.

       • I'm gun go get my coat from da closet.
   16. 19

       A Gbe language spoken in parts of Benin and Nigeria.

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