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Contents
1English
1.1Alternative forms
1.2Etymology
1.3Pronunciation
1.4Noun
1.4.1Derived terms
1.4.2Translations
1.5Verb
1.6Further reading
1.7Anagrams
English
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Alternative forms
edit- shot-gun
Etymology
editFrom shot + gun. Front passenger seat sense comes from ride shotgun.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation)IPA(key): /ˈʃɒtɡʌn/
- (General American)IPA(key): /ˈʃɑtɡʌn/
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- Rhymes: -ɒtɡʌn, -ɑtɡʌn
- Hyphenation: shot‧gun
Noun
editshotgun (countable and uncountable, pluralshotguns)
- (firearms) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge. Synonym:scattergunMeat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun.
- 1971, Carole King, Gerry Goffin (lyrics and music), “Smackwater Jack”, in Tapestry, Ode Records:You can’t talk to a man / With a shotgun in his hand
- (slang) The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat. Can also be used in situations of claiming other resources such as bedrooms. Synonym:death seatI call shotgun! ― I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.I call shotgun! ― I claim the right to this bedroom etc.
- (US, especially Southern US) A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line. Synonyms:shotgun house, shotgun shackElvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.
- (American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense. shotgun cartridgesshotgun seat
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the threat of force or dubious means. shotgun weddingshotgun diplomacy
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result. shotgun marketingshotgun approach
Derived terms
edit- double-barrelled shotgun
- ride shotgun
- sawn-off shotgun, sawed-off shotgun
- shotgun approach
- shotgun cloning
- shotgun debugging
- shotgun double
- shotgun fungus
- shotgun marriage
- shotgun mic
- shotgun microphone
- shotgun offense
- shotgun pleading
- shotgun proteomics
- shotgun sequencing
- shotgun shack
- shotgun start
- shotgun surgery
- shotgun wedding
- shotty
Translations
editgun| - Albanian: please add this translation if you can - Amuzgo: San Pedro Amuzgos: ndoꞌchon nuan - Arabic: Hijazi Arabic: شوزن m(šōzan), بُنْدُقِيّة f(bundugiyya) - Armenian: please add this translation if you can - Asturian: escopeta f - Belarusian: стрэ́льба f(strélʹba) - Bulgarian: пу́шка (bg) f(púška), ловджийска пу́шка f(lovdžijska púška) - Catalan: escopeta f - Chamicuro: shipotos̈hka’s̈ho’lochi - Cherokee: ᎤᏒᏕᎾ(usvdena) - Chinese: Mandarin: 霰彈槍／霰弹枪 (zh)(xiàndànqiāng), 散彈槍／散弹枪 (zh)(sǎndànqiāng), 獵槍／猎枪 (zh)(lièqiāng) - Czech: brokovnice (cs) f - Danish: haglbøsse c - Dutch: hagelgeweer (nl) n, jachtgeweer (nl) n, buks (nl) m or f - Esperanto: kartoĉa fusilo - Estonian: please add this translation if you can - Finnish: haulikko (fi) - French: fusil (fr) m, fusil de chasse (fr) m - Galician: escopeta - Georgian: გლუვლულიანი თოფი(gluvluliani topi) - German: Flinte (de) f, Schrotflinte (de) f - Hungarian: vadászpuska (hu) - Icelandic: haglabyssa (is) f - Ido: glata fusilo - Indonesian: senapan gentel - Irish: gunna gráin m, gránghunna m - Italian: fucile a canna liscia m sg, schioppo (it) m, doppietta (it) f, fucile da caccia m, spingarda f, carabina (it) f - Japanese: 散弾銃 (ja)(さんだんじゅう, sandanjū), 霰弾銃 (ja)(さんだんじゅう, sandanjū), ショットガン (ja)(shottogan) - Kalmyk: хавал(xaval) - Korean: 산탄총 (ko)(santanchong) - Latvian: bise f - Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can - Macedonian: са́чмарка f(sáčmarka) - Malay: please add this translation if you can - Maltese: senter m - Maori: pūhoata, pūhōta - Norwegian: hagle (no) c - Plautdietsch: Schrootflint f - Polish: strzelba (pl) f - Portuguese: caçadeira f, espingarda (pt) f(Brazil), escopeta (pt) f - Romanian: please add this translation if you can - Russian: дробови́к (ru) m(drobovík), (охотничье)ружьё (ru) n(ružʹjó) - Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сачмарица f, сачмара fRoman: sačmarica (sh) f, sačmara f - Slovak: brokovnica (sk) f - Slovene: šibrovka f, šibrenica f - Spanish: escopeta (es) f sg - Swedish: hagelgevär (sv) n - Tagalog: eskopeta - Thai: ปืนลูกซอง(bpʉʉn-lûuk-sɔɔng) - Tok Pisin: sot gan - Turkish: av tüfeği (tr), çifte (tr) - Ukrainian: рушни́ця f(rušnýcja) | |—|
front seat next to driver| - Bashkir: алғыурын(alğı urın), алдағыурын(aldağı urın) - Bulgarian: преднаседалка f(predna sedalka)в кола (до шофьора)(v kola (do šofjora)) - Finnish: pelkääjän paikka (fi)(humorous), vänskärinpaikka(colloquial), matkustajanetupenkki(rare) - French: place du mort (fr) f - German: Beifahrersitz (de) m - Hungarian: anyósülés (hu)(literally “mother-in-law’s seat”), utasülés(literally “passenger seat”) - Icelandic: framhlaðningur m, framsæti (is) n (often with definite article) - Italian: sedile passeggero anteriore m, sidecar (it) m - Portuguese: banco do carona m(Brazil), banco da frente m - Russian: (переднее пассажирское)сиде́нье (ru) n(sidénʹje) - Swedish: framsäte (sv) n | |—|
*The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.*Translations to be checked| - Bulgarian: (please verify)едноетажна къща f(ednoetažna kǎšta), (please verify)с преходни помещения(s prehodni pomeštenija), (please verify)подредени в редица(podredeni v redica) (3) - Hebrew: (please verify)רובה ציד (he) f - Maori: (please verify)pū hoata - Thai: (please verify)ปืนลูกซอง(bpeun lôok song) | |—|
Verb
editshotgun (third-person singular simple presentshotguns, present participleshotgunning, simple past and past participleshotgunned)
- (slang,smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
- 2017, “Super Potent”, in Renaissance, performed by The Underachievers:High as fuck, I light it up / Got pre-rolls for the whole month / She don’t smoke but when I roll one / We shotgun the whole blunt
- (transitive,informal) To verbally lay claim to (something) I got a day off because I shotgunned it.
- (transitive,baseball) To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
- (US,slang) To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one’s mouth, and opening the top.
- (US,slang) To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
2009, Writing Fiction For Dummies, →ISBN:An actual physical piece of paper shows that you’re not just shotgunning out queries to every agent on the planet.
2011 December 6, John Schwartz, “Out of a Writer’s Imagination Came an Interactive World”, in The New York Times1, →ISSN:Science fiction writers are “shotgunning ideas” through their works, he said, and people tend to recall the pellets that hit the target.
2013, Zack Arias, Photography Q&A: Real Questions, Real Answers, page 197:It’s like they are on a generic mailing list and some photographer is just shotgunning cards out into the world with no thought as to who they are actually going to.
- (computing,slang) To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.
- 1998, Stuart Ball, Debugging Embedded Microprocessor Systems, page 71:Understand the problem before fixing it. About the only scenario where shotgunning is useful is if there is a shorted IC and you cannot tell which one it is.
Further reading
edit- 
shotgun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- shotgun house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
edit- gunshot, hotguns, noughts, unghost, hognuts, hutongs, uhtsong
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