Meaning of run and gun | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To move the ball quickly and shoot often.
   attributive, often
2. To do something hastily and with great energy.
   idiomatic

Examples

“This team likes to run⟳ and gun.”

“They're really running and gunning now.”

“This coach likes to play⟳ a run-and-gun offense.”

“It has this sort⟳ of impulsiveness to it: “One and done.” We do full, A-story episodes in one chunk. For episode six we had Lauren Lapkus, Horatio Sanz, Mitch Hurwitz, me, Mike and Meghan O’Neill in the studio for four hours…we can’t get⟳ those people back! So we have⟳ to run⟳ and gun it.”

““We used to just run⟳ and gun it,” he says. “Now that we’ve gotten bigger and things got more expensive and we need⟳ to kind of up the ante, there’s a lot more production time that goes into it.””

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