"open-carry" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "open-carries",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "open-carrying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "open-carried",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "open-carried",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "open-carry (third-person singular simple present open-carries, present participle open-carrying, simple past and past participle open-carried)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 July 31, Mike_Fontenot, “Re: So Much For CC Permits”, in rec.guns (Usenet)",
          "text": "The police said that his gun was \"plainly visible\", and they seemed to imply that he was open-carrying.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 18, Thomas Harper, Incarnate: Essence, Thomas Harper, page 115",
          "text": "Everyone in the crowd conspicuously open carried a weapon, making sure to let everyone around them know that they were packing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To visibly carry a firearm in a public space."
      ],
      "id": "en-open-carry-en-verb-dmvXIEE0",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To visibly carry a firearm in a public space."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "open-carry"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "open-carries",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "open-carrying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "open-carried",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "open-carried",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "open-carry (third-person singular simple present open-carries, present participle open-carrying, simple past and past participle open-carried)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 July 31, Mike_Fontenot, “Re: So Much For CC Permits”, in rec.guns (Usenet)",
          "text": "The police said that his gun was \"plainly visible\", and they seemed to imply that he was open-carrying.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 April 18, Thomas Harper, Incarnate: Essence, Thomas Harper, page 115",
          "text": "Everyone in the crowd conspicuously open carried a weapon, making sure to let everyone around them know that they were packing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To visibly carry a firearm in a public space."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To visibly carry a firearm in a public space."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "open-carry"
}