Meaning of Gun | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
2. A Gbe language spoken in parts of Benin and Nigeria
3. A magsman or street thief.
   obsolete, slang
4. A Gbe language spoken in parts of Benin and Nigeria.
5. A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
6. A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
7. A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
8. A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
9. A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)
   figuratively
10. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
11. Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
12. A device or tool that projects a substance.
13. A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
14. 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).
15. A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
16. A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.
    colloquial, metonymically
17. An electron gun.
18. The biceps.
    colloquial, plural-normally
19. Violent blasts of wind.
    in-plural
20. Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, skilful, or cool.
    Australia, New-Zealand, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.”

“Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.”

“Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.”

“Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised up his gun at the approaching deer.”

“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.”

“air-pressure pellet gun”

“zipgun”

“nail gun”

“squirt gun”

“spray gun”

“grease gun”

“a rivet gun”

“screw gun”

“a price-label gun”

“The piercing gun cannot be disinfected and therefore there is a risk of transmitting hepatitis and other infections.”

“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.”

“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”

“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[…]"”

“"They say he's the fastest gun in the whole goddamn world." "I thought Blackie was supposed to be the best," Harlow remarked. “That's what all you chaps keep tellin' me." "Blackie is the fastest gun in the Oklahoma Territory,"[…]”

“They want to take on the fastest gun in town.”

“"He's a fast gun out of Arizona."”

“The problem is figuring out how to get the electrons from the red gun to hit only the red phosphors, the electrons from the blue gun to hit only the blue phosphors, and so on.”

“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.”

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