Synonyms for
gun
A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
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All Definitions for Gun

Below are all the dictionary definitions of gun:

1A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
2A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
3A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles
4A rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic
5A flintlock, musket or shotgun.
6A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.
7A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
8A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer
9Mortar.
10A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)
11A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
12Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
13A device or tool that projects a substance.
14A 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).
15(gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
16To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
17To cause to speed up.
18To practice fowling or hunting small game
19Chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
20To seek to attack someone
21To take aim at someone
22Used with for.
23Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).
24Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
25The biceps.
26Violent blasts of wind.
27A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
28An electron gun.
29A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
30A magsman or street thief.
31A Gbe language spoken in parts of Benin and Nigeria.
32Nonstandard spelling of going to.

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