splatter-gun

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A shotgun, assault weapon, or other gun that repeatedly fires quickly and in an imprecise…

   A shotgun, assault weapon, or other gun that repeatedly fires quickly and in an imprecise fashion.

   • Mr. Vee here has his Makarov and his Sicilian splatter-gun on the sling there, plus what, exactly, is that? Looks like an AK47 frame, but what the hell is that barrel?
   • "That splatter-gun won't avail thee none, old man,” Bianca said.
   • Fading in on the screech of a magnificently over-wrought electric guitar, the drums arrive like a splatter-gun, the riff chewed up and spat out without ceremony over six-and-a- half minutes of angry hell.
2. 2

   Not systematic

   Not systematic; Characterized by trying many different things.

   • Encourage the 'splatter-gun' effect: The aim here is literally to 'splatter' thoughts onto the page, in a similar way to the stream of consciousness (see Chapter 7).
   • His past was a patchwork splatter-gun portfolio of überglamorous and harrowing, as he and his mother lurched from squalor to splendour, depending on her moods and who she was squiring.

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