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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