Shotgun - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈʃɑːtɡʌn|
Brit.
|ˈʃɒtɡʌn|
noun
- firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges
Extra examples
The robbers were armed with sawn-off shotguns (=ones that have been made shorter, so the balls go in different directions).
...after the national emergency had passed, the political parties abandoned their shotgun unity and reverted to their partisan squabbling...
A casing for a shotgun shell
...the tightly packed pellets of a shotgun cartridge...
I woke to find a shotgun levelled at my eyes.
She blasted her husband with a shotgun because he was having an affair.
The suspect is armed with a shotgun.
Word forms
noun
singular: shotgun
plural: shotguns
singular: shotgun
plural: shotguns
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