Definitions for Gun

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Gun gun

Spelling: [guhn]

IPA: /gʌn/

Gun is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in Gun (gnu).

Definitions for Gun

noun

1. a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
2. any portable firearm, as a rifle, shotgun, or revolver.
3. a long-barreled cannon having a relatively flat trajectory.
4. any device for shooting something under pressure:
5. Slang. a person whose profession is killing; professional killer:
6. British. a member of a shooting party.
7. electron gun.
8. Slang. (esp. in baseball) a player’s throwing arm. guns, the biceps or triceps of the arms:
9. cotton gin.
10. a trap or snare for game.
11. any of various machines employing simple tackle or windlass mechanisms for hoisting.
12. a stationary prime mover having a drive shaft rotated by horizontal beams pulled by horses walking in a circle.
13. Also called gin rummy. a variety of rummy for two players, in which a player with 10 or fewer points in unmatched cards can end the game by laying down the hand.
14. the winning of such a game by laying down a full set of matched cards, earning the winner a bonus of 20 or 25 points.

verb

1. past participle of gin3 .

Idioms

1. give the gun, Slang. to put into motion or speed up:
2. jump the gun, Slang. to begin a race before the starting signal. to begin prematurely; act too hastily.
3. spike someone's guns, to frustrate or prevent someone from accomplishing a plan:
4. stick to one's guns, to maintain one's position in the face of opposition; stand firm: Also, stand by one's guns.
5. under the gun, under pressure, as to meet a deadline or solve a problem:

Verb phrases

1. gun for, to seek with intent to harm or kill. to seek; try earnestly to obtain:

verb (used with object)

1. to shoot with a gun (often followed by down):
2. to cause (an engine, vehicle, aircraft, etc.) to increase in speed very quickly by increasing the supply of fuel.
3. to clear (cotton) of seeds with a gin.
4. to snare (game).

verb (used without object)

1. to hunt with a gun.
2. to shoot with a gun.
3. to win a game in gin by laying down a hand in which all 10 cards are included in sets.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to begin.

Origin of Gun

1300-50; Middle English gunne, gonne, apparently short for Anglo-Latin Gunilda, gonnyld, name for engine of war; compare Old Norse Gunna, short for Gunnhildr woman's name

Examples for Gun

If you don't put down that gun in double quick time, you'll repent it.

I mean, the reality of it was, I had to go out and get on a horse, and ride in, shoot the gun — how hard was that, right?

"This gun makes me even with you," said Robert, returning his look unflinchingly.

Yes, the gun:  “While this gives a moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind.”

He said he was out hunting with a friend, and his friend's gun went off accidentally.

"He had a gun shoved into the hollow of his throat," said Andy.

That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.

Frias—who was arrested in 2013 for interfering with public duties and public intoxication—was not carrying a gun at the time.

Tried to get my gun on him, but he came up like a wild cat and went straight at me.

“You can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.