loose cannon
A cannon that breaks loose from its moorings on a ship during battle or storm, with the potential to cause serious damage to the ship and her crew.
noun
A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages.
Holonyms: gun, field gun; howitzer; mortar
Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
water cannon; glitter cannon; confetti cannon; potato cannon
Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
A rolled and filleted loin of meat.
a canon of beef or lamb
verb
To bombard with cannons.
To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.
To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.
Montenegro had hardly threatened in the second period but served notice they were still potent as Nikola Vukcevic took a smart pass from Jovetic and cannoned a shot off Hennessey's shins.
To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
[…] he heard the right-hand goal post crack as a pony cannoned into it—crack, splinter, and fall like a mast.
She ran down the stairs which she had come up so nervously that morning and cannoned into Edmund at the bottom.
noun
Misspelling of canon.