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noun (English)
1. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
2. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
3. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.Examples: "It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.[…]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts."figuratively
4. (surfing) 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).Examples: "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."
5. (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.Examples: "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"
6. (colloquial, metonymic) A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particuarly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.Examples: "Some said that the cowboy was the fastest gun in the West."; "[…] we had one lawman - Sheriff Dirty Herwick, "the slowest gun in the West." Dirty was a kindly man, a java addict whose knees knocked at the sight of blood. Back then, we winched our own car wrecks out of ravines and chased away mountain lions with kitchen brooms."; ""I must say, I quite enjoy having the best detective in the business, and the fastest gun in the West, on my payroll." "First of all," Clint said tightly, "I'm not the fastest gun in the West, and second, I'm not on your payroll." Royce held up both of his hands. "I didn't mean to offend you, sir[…]""colloquialmetonymically
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cause to speed up.Examples: "He gunned the engine."transitive
2. (informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).Examples: "We're all gunning for you."informal
3. (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.Examples: "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."informal
4. (ambitransitive, US, prison slang, of a male prisoner) Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).Examples: "[…] all inmates participated in such conduct, and […] "the inmates gunned only female staff, not the all-male security staff," he said."Synonyms: gun downUSambitransitiveslang
noun (English)
1. (obsolete, slang) A magsman or street thief.Examples: "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."obsoleteslang
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