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Shotguns

A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.

📖 Definitions of "Shotguns"

noun
  1. 1

    A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.

    "Meat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun."

  2. 2

    The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat.

    "I call shotgun! (I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.)"

  3. 3

    A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.

    "Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi."

  4. 4

    An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.

verb
  1. 1

    (smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.

  2. 2

    To verbally lay claim to (something)

    "I got a day off because I shotgunned it."

  3. 3

    To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.

  4. 4

    To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.

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