ADJ
12-bore, double-barrelled, pump-action, sawn-off
The farmer kept a 12-bore shotgun by the kitchen door for protection.
loaded
VERB + SHOTGUN
fire | be armed with, carry | threaten sb with | load | aim
SHOTGUN + NOUN
licence | cartridge, pellet
blast
The loud shotgun blast startled everyone at the hunting range that morning.
wound
noun
A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
The farmer's son brought home a Thanksgiving turkey from the wild that he killed with his shotgun.
You can't talk to a man / With a shotgun in his hand
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. Can al
I call shotgun!
I call shotgun!
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.
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.
Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense.
shotgun cartridges
shotgun seat
verb
To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
High as fuck, I light it up / Got pre-rolls for the whole month / She don't smoke but when I roll one / We shotgun the whole blunt
To verbally lay claim to (something)
I got a day off because I shotgunned it.
To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
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.
To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hi
An actual physical piece of paper shows that you're not just shotgunning out queries to every agent on the planet.
Science fiction writers are “shotgunning ideas” through their works, he said, and people tend to recall the pellets that hit the target.
noun — firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon
To accompany the driver of a vehicle on a journey as an armed escort (originally with a shotgun); (by extension) to accompany someone in order to assist and protect.
He attended the meeting to ride shotgun for the sales team, in case anyone had a technical question.
A wedding in which the bride is already pregnant.
If Red Skelton's joke can still elicit laughs, it is only because there is a minority who can still remember a shotgun wedding and even recall the understandings that lay behind th
An approach in which the subject is indiscriminate and haphazard, using breadth, spread, or quantity in lieu of accuracy, planning, etc.
She seems to take the shotgun approach to holiday shopping, buying many smaller, generic gifts for everybody.
The farmer's son brought home a Thanksgiving turkey from the wild that he killed with his shotgun.
WiktionaryYou can't talk to a man / With a shotgun in his hand
WiktionaryAn unusual custom is followed at Llangennith, when shotguns are fired at a wedding - to scare off evil spirits from the newlyweds.
WiktionaryHigh as fuck, I light it up / Got pre-rolls for the whole month / She don't smoke but when I roll one / We shotgun the whole blunt
WiktionaryI got a day off because I shotgunned it.
WiktionaryAn actual physical piece of paper shows that you're not just shotgunning out queries to every agent on the planet.
Wiktionaryi Register
In some senses, shotgun is marked as slang, informal, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.