gun

From Proto-Mongolic *gün, compare Mongolian гүн (gün).


gun

first-person singular present indicative

(in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative

Dutch pronunciation


gun

A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.

A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.

A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.

(military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.

(military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.

It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.[…]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.

1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:

(figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)

They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.

1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.

2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5

Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.

Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised up his gun at the approaching deer.

air-pressure pellet gun

zipgun

nail gun

A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.

Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.

squirt gun

spray gun

grease gun

A device or tool that projects a substance.

a rivet gun

screw gun

a price-label gun

A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.

2000, Drew Kampion, surfline.com
by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii gun was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore.

(surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).

The glider gun on the bottom of the NOT circuit emits a continuous stream of gliders, while the data stream source emits a glider only when there is a value of 1 in the stream[…].

2000, Gary William Flake, The computational beauty of nature:

It would be especially interesting if someone can find an "airplane gun", which generates airplanes at regular intervals.

2007 February 23, Frank, “Life on the Edge”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):

Greene's period-416 2c/5 spaceship gun

2010, Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata, page 74:

(cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.

Some said that the cowboy was the fastest gun in the West.

[…] we had one lawman - Sheriff Dirty Herwick, "the slowest gun in the West." Dirty was a kindly man, a java addict whose knees knocked at the sight of blood. Back then, we winched our own car wrecks out of ravines and chased away mountain lions with kitchen brooms.

1991 12, “Ski”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 256:

"I must say, I quite enjoy having the best detective in the business, and the fastest gun in the West, on my payroll." "First of all," Clint said tightly, "I'm not the fastest gun in the West, and second, I'm not on your payroll." Royce held up both of his hands. "I didn't mean to offend you, sir[…]"

(Can we date this quote?), J.R. Roberts, Death in Denver, Speaking Volumes, →ISBN:

"They say he's the fastest gun in the whole goddamn world." "I thought Blackie was supposed to be the best," Harlow remarked. “That's what all you chaps keep tellin' me." "Blackie is the fastest gun in the Oklahoma Territory,"[…]

(Can we date this quote?), J.R. Roberts, Gundown in Paradise, Speaking Volumes, →ISBN:

They want to take on the fastest gun in town.

2015 February 26, Neil Hickey, Adventures in the Scribblers Trade: The Most Fun You Can Have, iUniverse, →ISBN:

"He's a fast gun out of Arizona."

2015 August 31, Raymond C. Merriam, Hell’S Partner, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

(colloquial, metonymically) A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particuarly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.

The problem is figuring out how to get the electrons from the red gun to hit only the red phosphors, the electrons from the blue gun to hit only the blue phosphors, and so on.

2012, Brand Fortner, Theodore E. Meyer, Number by Colors, page 202:

(colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.

(nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.

(Australia, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.

is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me

you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone

Sranan Tongo: gon

kanon

military: cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity

arm-tan

military: cannon with tube length 30 calibers or more

лонгборд

From Middle English gunne, gonne, possibly from Gunnhild, a female given name formerly used as a nickname for engines of war. The name is composed of the Norse elements gunnr and hildr, both meaning "battle".


gun

He gunned the engine.

We're all gunning for you.

(informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).

Australian John Landy, one of Bannister’s rivals also gunning to break the four-minute barrier, took more than a second off the Briton’s time in Turku, Finland, a few weeks later.

2023, George Ramsay, Amy Woodyatt, “‘Like a chairlift up Everest’: Once running’s supreme challenge, has the value of a four-minute mile diminished?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), CNN:

(informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.

He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.

To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.

To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.

[…] all inmates participated in such conduct, and […] "the inmates gunned only female staff, not the all-male security staff," he said.

2010, BNA's Employment Discrimination Report:

(ambitransitive, US, prison slang, of a male prisoner) Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).

en-verb

gun (third-person singular simple present guns, present participle gunning, simple past and past participle gunned)

guns (present singular third-person)
gunning (participle present)
gunned (participle past)
gunned (past)


gun

To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.

1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.), page 2:

(obsolete, slang) A magsman or street thief.


gun

I'm gun go get my coat from da closet.


gun

(historical, 1942-1945) Synonym of kewedanaan

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 郡(ぐん) (gun, “county, district”). Romanised according modified Kunrei-shiki romanization.


gun

Borrowed from Burmese ကုန် (kun). Cognate with Shan ၵုၼ်ႇ (kùn).


gun

head

gun m (genitive singular gunney, plural gunnaghyn)

gunney (genitive singular)
gunnaghyn (plural)


gun

testicle, ball, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testis


gun

an t-amadan sin gun do thagh thu

am fear gum pòs aig deireadh na mìosa

the man that will marry at the end of the month

an taigh gu bheil aice


gun

gun teagamh

gun chàr

thuirt mi ris gun a dhol a-mach

gun (+ nominative, triggers lenition except before d, t, n or s)

except before d (triggers-lenition)
t (triggers-lenition)


gun

1911 (Birlinn Limited), Edward Dwelly: The Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary:
Duine gun mhath gun chron, is motha a chron na a mhath. ― A man that's neither good nor ill is more ill than good.


gun

to be long (usually along a horizontal axis)


gun

(intransitive) to climb, to ascend something

ó gun kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́

(intransitive, transitive) to ride or mount (someone or something)

(idiomatic, intransitive) to copulate, to mate

ó ń hùwà bí ẹni tí Ṣàngó ń gùn

He is behaving like someone that Sango is possessing

(idiomatic) to be possessed; (in particular) to be possessed by the spirit of an orisha

mágùn

a charm used to prevent a man from sleeping with one's wife

Possibly from Proto-Yoruboid *gwũ̀ (“to ascend”) or Proto-Yoruboid *gũ̀, cognate with Igala gwú (“to climb, to mate”)


gun

Possibly from Proto-Yoruboid *gwũ̀ (“to sweat”), cognate with Igala gwù (“to sweat”), see *(ò)úgwũ̀ (“sweat”), úgwù (“sweat”), and òógùn (“sweat, perspiration”)


gun

to be angular in shape, to form an angle


gun

Jùmọ̀kẹ́ ò kí ń gún iyán dáadáa, ẹ̀bà nìkan ló lè tẹ̀.

Jumoke doesn't pound yam well, she can only make eba.


gun

Dókítà gún mi lábẹ́rẹ́.

Igi gogoro máà gún mi lójú; àtòkèèrè la ti ń wò ó

So that we may not be poked in the eye by the tall, pointed tree, one must watch it from afar.

to pierce; to jab; to penetrate; to stab


gun

Àárín tọkọtaya gún régé.

There is peace between the couple. (literally, “Between the couple is in proper alignment.”)

Mo gún èjìká.