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[ UK /ɡˈʌn/ ]
[ US /ˈɡən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine
  2. a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
  3. a professional killer who uses a gun
  4. large but transportable armament
  5. a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
  6. the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies
    two runners started before the gun
    a twenty gun salute
  7. a pedal that controls the throttle valve
    he stepped on the gas
VERB
  1. shoot with a gun

How To Use gun In A Sentence

  • The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
  • Spanish-American War of 1898 Edison suggested to the Navy Department the adoption of a compound of calcium carbide and calcium phosphite, which when placed in a shell and fired from a gun would explode as soon as it struck water and ignite, producing a blaze that would continue several minutes and make the ships of the enemy visible for four or five miles at sea. Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • Each casemate mounted a three-gun battery of either 100mm or 150mm, and the southern side received additional cover from a detached fort mounting three 100mm gun turrets. Steel Victory
  • Ingundis; and Leovigild, whose two sons, Hermenegild and Recared, were the issue of a former marriage.] [Footnote 128: Iracundiae furore succensa, adprehensam per comam capitis puellam in terram conlidit, et diu calcibus verberatam, ac sanguins cruentatam, jussit exspoliari, et piscinae immergi. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
  • Having a smooth bore . Use of a gun barrel.
  • It had begun the seventies with the declared intention of contributing 0.7 percent of the gross national product in official aid.
  • Day after day thousands of people die of confessing their loyalty to the Tokugawa shogunate.
  • I was filming a music video in Central Kingston in the middle of general elections, when gunmen shot up a group of people on the corner playing ludo (snakes and ladders) and dominoes.
  • On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
  • Days later, Gregg was gunned down near Belfast docks as he returned from a Glasgow Rangers football match.
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