Word Finder - gun

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A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.

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Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.

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

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There are some guns that are not designed for killing.

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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).

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A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.

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(metonym) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.

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(usually in the plural) The biceps.

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(in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.

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An expert.

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(with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.

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He gunned down the hitmen.

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To speed something up.

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He gunned the engine.

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To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.

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He’s gunning for you.

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To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.

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

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

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To masturbate while observing and visible to a corrections officer.

I never shot a gun in my life.

He raised his gun and fired at the great beast.

The warm farmhouse smelled of gun oil and breakfast.

She'd learned self-defense by the age of eleven and how to shoot a gun when she was twelve.

People can't just shoot a gun anywhere they want to, can they?

She waited, watching as he approached the bear, gun ready.

She didn't really care what the dark grey walls, floors, and ceilings were made of or why the floor felt like carpet and looked like gun metal.

The Greek prince withdrew the gun at the small of his back, whipping it towards her.

I heard the gun shot.

If they put a gun to my grandson, I'd falter in a minute.

I had my gun out when I confronted him.

Amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him jump, Tushin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute.

She had a laser gun, even if she couldn't hit a target two feet in front of her.

Soon, with the gun in one hand, he crept back into the cave.

No smoking gun revelations resulted from her clandestine research.

I'd say you have few choices; get protection, get a gun or head for the hills.

They gave you a gun?

She could have carried a gun, but that would have to be put down so many times that it wouldn't be much help.

If I had a gun I'd kill the son of a bitch!

Did he have a gun?

The access pad appeared as though it had been shot with a laser gun; it was blackened and melted.

The man beside Lana rocked back suddenly, pounding his gun on the ground as it jammed.

Lana raised the laser gun, closed her eyes and fired.

But I was kinda jumping the gun.

Stop moving around—I've still got the gun and I'll use it.

This gun is pointed right at your heart.

Do you always carry a gun when you're riding?

He glanced down at the gun and then back to her.

I don't have a gun or anything.

Can you use a gun?

My father taught me, but I don't want to carry a gun everywhere I go.

When was the last time you had to use a gun to defend yourself on our land?

If you'd been out there with a gun like I told you to do, you wouldn't have needed anyone to defend you.

He drew closer once more, pausing on the opposite side of the counter, watching her in a way that left her feeling as if she was standing naked in his living room, armed with a gun.

When having limbered up the only two cannon that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill (one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), Prince Andrew rode up to Tushin.

Though the orders were to abandon the wounded, many of them dragged themselves after troops and begged for seats on the gun carriages.

Yes, and you remember how Papa in his blue overcoat fired a gun in the porch?

When he opened the glove box, I was sure he'd come out with a gun, but he had a little tablet instead.

Davis grunted and holstered his gun.

Toni, I don't think he should have a gun!

You shouldn't have given Jonny a gun.

Can he even carry a gun?

She drew the gun at the small of her back and aimed it at the head of one of the vamps.

She changed quickly out of her sleepwear and loaded her body down with weapons then drew a knife and her gun.

There was a sound, like a gun shot, but maybe a firecracker.

How do you know he has a gun?

Either one of them might have stolen the bony digit from Cynthia's jewelry case and fired a gun at the Lucky Pup Mine.

Lydia's gun rested on the coffee table.

The gun was in his hand.

But the gun is a little frightening, Dean said.