gun : Idioms & Phrases

• noun artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
  pom-pom; antiaircraft; ack-ack; ack-ack gun; flack; flak.
  

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• noun a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air
  airgun; air rifle.
  

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Air" gun`

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1. A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger. airhead

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• noun artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
  pom-pom; antiaircraft; ack-ack; ack-ack gun; flack; flak.
  

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• a wrought iron breech-loading cannon named after its English inventor, Sir William Armstrong.

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• noun any of the automatic rifles or semiautomatic rifles with large magazines designed for military use
  assault rifle.
  
• noun an armored vehicle with the chassis of a tank (but no turret) and a large gun; used as an antitank weapon and to support infantry
  

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• noun a firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released
  automatic firearm; automatic weapon.
  

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• a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette, or partially protected by a parapet or turret.

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• a gun capable of firing a number, of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load.

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• noun an air gun in which BBs are propelled by compressed air
  

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• noun an important influential person
  big cheese; big fish; big shot; big wheel; head honcho; big deal; big enchilada.
  
  • he thinks he's a big shot
  • she's a big deal in local politics
  • the Qaeda commander is a very big fish

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• noun an automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun
  

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• noun a submachine gun operated by gas pressure; used by the British in World War II
  Bren.
  

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• noun a belt-fed machine gun capable of firing more than 500 rounds per minute; used by United States troops in World War II and the Korean War
  Peacemaker.
  

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• noun a fully automatic pistol; a small submachine gun
  machine pistol.
  

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• (Naut.), a cannon placed at the bow or stern of an armed vessel, and used when pursuing an enemy, or in defending the vessel when pursued.

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• cast-iron guns lined with wrought-iron or steel tubes. Farrow.

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• noun the electrode that is the source of electrons in a cathode-ray tube or electron microscope; consists of a cathode that emits a stream of electrons and the electrostatic or electromagnetic apparatus that focuses it
  

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• the surface of metal at the muzzle.

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• a kind of steam gun for converting, wood, straw, etc., into fiber. The material is shut up in the gun with steam, air, or gas at a very high pressure which is afterward relieved suddenly by letting a lid at the muzzle fly open, when the rapid expansion separates the fibers.

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• noun movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops)
  field artillery.
  

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• a light gun, supported on a galloper, formerly attached to British infantry regiments.

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• noun a gun that fires gas shells
  

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• noun an early form of machine gun having several barrels that fire in sequence as they are rotated
  

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Gat"ling gun`

Etymology

From the inventor, R.J. Gatling.

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1. An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired. ✍ The improved Gatling gun can be fired at the rate of 1,200 shots per minute. Farrow.

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• noun a hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine
  gun.
  

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• a piece of heavy ordnanced, a person superior in any way.

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• . (Naut.) See under Gun.

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• noun a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired
  barrel.
  

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• the barrel or tube of a gun.

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• noun a framework on which a gun is mounted for firing
  

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• the carriage on which a gun is mounted or moved.

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• noun a case for storing a gun
  

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• noun chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge
  firing chamber.
  

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• noun efforts to regulate or control sales of guns
  

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• (Chem.), a general name for a series of explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. Although there are formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. It burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity. Specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the highest (pyroxylin) which is soluble. See Pyroxylin, and cf. Xyloidin. The gun cottons are used for blasting and somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded with camphor; and the soluble variety (pyroxylin) for making collodion. See Celluloid, and Collodion. Gun cotton is frequenty but improperly called nitrocellulose. It is not a nitro compound, but an ethereal salt of nitric acid.

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• noun formerly any deck other than the weather deck having cannons from end to end
  

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• . See under Deck.

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• noun a dog trained to work with sportsmen when they hunt with guns
  sporting dog.
  

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• verb strike down or shoot down
  

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• noun an emplacement for a gun
  weapons emplacement.
  

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• noun a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
  turret; gun enclosure.
  

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• the time at which the morning or the evening gun is fired.

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• noun a professional killer who uses a gun
  hit man; gunslinger; shooter; gun; triggerman; hitman; gunman; torpedo; gun for hire.
  

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• a bronze, ordinarily composed of nine parts of copper and one of tin, used for cannon, etc. The name is also given to certain strong mixtures of cast iron.

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• noun the girlfriend of a gangster
  moll; gangster's moll.
  

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• noun the open circular discharging end of a gun
  muzzle.
  

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• noun a ballistic pendulum consisting of a suspended gun; the velocity of a projectile in the bore of a gun can be measured by the recoil when the gun is discharged
  

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• (Naut.), an opening in a ship through which a cannon's muzzle is run out for firing.

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• noun wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel
  gunwale; gunnel.
  

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• noun military quarters of midshipmen and junior officers on a British warship
  

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• noun smoke created by the firing of guns
  

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• (Naut.), the blocks and pulleys affixed to the side of a ship, by which a gun carriage is run to and from the gun port.

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• (Naut.), a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall. Totten.

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• noun lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
  trigger.
  

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• noun a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
  turret; gun enclosure.
  

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• noun a sight used for aiming a gun
  gunsight.
  

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• noun a cannon or similar gun that fires harpoons
  

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• a gun used in the whale fishery for shooting the harpoon into a whale.

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• noun a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges
  

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• noun a professional killer who uses a gun
  hit man; gunslinger; shooter; gun; triggerman; hitman; gunman; torpedo; gun for hire.
  

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• a wrought steel breech-loading cannon, named after its German inventor, Herr Krupp.

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• noun a submachine gun not greater than .30 millimeter
  

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• noun a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)
  
• verb shoot with a machine gun
  

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• a breech-loading gun or a group of such guns, mounted on a carriage or other holder, and having a reservoir containing cartridges which are loaded into the gun or guns and fired in rapid succession, sometimes in volleys, by machinery operated by turning a crank. Several hundred shots can be fired in a minute with accurate aim. The Gatling gun, Gardner gun, Hotchkiss gun, and Nordenfelt gun, named for their inventors, and the French mitrailleuse, are machine guns.

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• a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which are brought automatically into position for firing.

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• noun an obsolete water-cooled machine gun having a single barrel
  

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• noun (military) gun that is discharged once every minute (usually as part of a military funeral)
  

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• a discharge of a cannon repeated every minute as a sign of distress or mourning.

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• a gun fired at the first stroke of reveille at military posts.

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• noun naval weaponry consisting of a large gun carried on a warship
  

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• the small part of the piece between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.

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• a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it.

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• . (Mil.) Same as Orgue (b).

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• noun an air gun used in the game of paintball; designed to simulate a semiautomatic
  

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• a gun mounted on a pivot or revolving carriage, so as to turn in any direction.

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• noun a dummy gun or piece of artillery made usually of wood
  

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• a dummy cannon made of wood or other material; so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold to the doctrine, of nonresistance.

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• (Fort.), a cannon or large gun for use on a rampart and not as a fieldpiece.

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• noun a firearm designed to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or death
  

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• noun a gun that is set to fire on any intruder that comes in contact with the wire that sets it off
  set gun.
  

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• a cannon suitable for throwing shells.

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• a firearm having shunt rifling. See under Rifling.

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• a heavy gun for siege operations.

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• noun a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)
  six-shooter; revolver.
  

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• noun indisputable evidence (especially of a crime)
  

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• noun an applicator resembling a gun for applying liquid substances (as paint) in the form of a spray
  

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• noun a gun that is set to fire on any intruder that comes in contact with the wire that sets it off
  set gun.
  

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• a firearm disharged by a spring, when this is trodden upon or is otherwise moved.

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• noun plaything consisting of a toy pistol that squirts water
  squirt gun; water pistol; squirter.
  

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• noun a hand-held machine for driving staples home
  tacker; staplegun.
  

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• a machine or contrivance from which projectiles may be thrown by the elastic force of steam.

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• noun a lightweight British submachine gun
  

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• noun a weapon designed to disable a victim temporarily by delivering a nonlethal high-voltage electric shock
  stun baton.
  

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• noun machine gun that is a portable automatic firearm
  

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• noun a .45-caliber submachine gun
  Thompson submachine gun.
  

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• to blow furiously and with roaring blasts; said of the wind at sea or along the coast.
• (Naut.), to blow a gale. See Gun, n., 3.

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• (Mil. & Naut.), to point it at some object either forward or else abaft the beam, that is, not directly on the side. Totten.

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• noun a .45-caliber submachine gun
  Thompson submachine gun.
  

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• a gun with several barrels for firing a number of shots simultaneously; a kind of mitrailleuse.

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• (Naut.), a gun sometimes fired on shipboard at 8 p. m., when the night watch begins.

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• noun plaything consisting of a toy pistol that squirts water
  squirt gun; water pistol; squirter.
  

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• noun a gun (or device resembling a gun) for discharging a projectile (especially a harpoon) at a whale
  

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Whit"worth gun`

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1. (Gun.) A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England. ✍ In Mr. Whitworth's system, the bore of the gun has a polygonal section, and the twist is rapid. The ball, which is pointed in front, is made to fit the bore accurately, and is very much elongated, its length being about three and one half times as great as its diameter. H. L. Scott.

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• . Same as Air gun.

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• noun a crude homemade pistol
  

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