"gunman" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: gunmen [plural]
Etymology: From gun + -man. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|gun|man}} gun + -man Head templates: {{en-noun|gunmen}} gunman (plural gunmen)
  1. A criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer. Categories (topical): Crime, Male people, People Translations (criminal armed with a gun): 槍手 (Chinese Mandarin), 枪手 (qiāngshǒu) (Chinese Mandarin), pyssymies (Finnish), asemies (Finnish), बंदूकधारी (bandūkdhārī) (Hindi), pyssymees (Ingrian), ガンマン (ganman) (Japanese), вооружённый престу́пник (vooružónnyj prestúpnik) (english: no exact term exists) [masculine] (Russian), стрело́к (strelók) [masculine] (Russian), pistolero [masculine] (Spanish), pistolera [feminine] (Spanish), skytt [common-gender] (Swedish), pistolskytt [common-gender] (Swedish), มือปืน (mʉʉ-bpʉʉn) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-gunman-en-noun-PcBdAPPd Disambiguation of Crime: 80 20 Disambiguation of Male people: 100 0 Disambiguation of People: 100 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -man, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Ingrian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Thai translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 70 30 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -man: 64 36 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 89 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 92 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Hindi translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Ingrian translations: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 92 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 96 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Thai translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of 'criminal armed with a gun': 100 0
  2. (sometimes derogatory) An American. Tags: derogatory, sometimes
    Sense id: en-gunman-en-noun-c4YENDSP
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: lone gunman Related terms: gunwoman

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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