GUN

Definition:

1. [noun] a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
   
   
2. [noun] large but transportable armament
   Synonyms: artillery, heavy weapon, ordnance
   
   
3. [noun] a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
   Synonyms: man
   
   
4. [noun] a professional killer who uses a gun
   Synonyms: man, slinger, hired for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter
   
   
5. [noun] a hand-operated pump that resembles a gun; forces grease into parts of a machine
   Synonyms: grease-
   
   
6. [noun] a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas"
   Synonyms: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle
   
   
7. [noun] the discharge of a gun as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies; "a twenty gun salute"
   
   
8. [verb] shoot with a gun
   
   

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Related Words:

• machine gun
• air gun, airgun, air rifle
• antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun
• breechloader
• cannon
• cannon
• firearm, piece, small-arm
• gas gun
• minute gun
• Quaker gun
• set gun, spring gun
• whaling gun
• cannon
• catapult, arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole, mangonel, onager, trebuchet, trebucket
• field artillery, field gun
• four-pounder

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