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{ "etymology_text": "Possibly a play on young'un.", "forms": [ { "form": "young guns", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "young gun (plural young guns)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English informal terms", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2021 January 30, Tanya Sweeney, “The Irish architect who became the ‘megamansion king’ of LA”, in The Irish Times:", "text": "[…] McKillen – not a man to entrust just anyone to build his homes – clearly had huge faith in the young gun.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A new or rising talent or star; rising star." ], "links": [ [ "rising star", "rising star" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(informal) A new or rising talent or star; rising star." ], "tags": [ "informal" ] } ], "word": "young gun" }
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