Dictionary Entry
gun
gun is a 3-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Gin. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 7 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1
of Gin
- 2noun
A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.
- 3noun
A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.
- 4noun
Violent blasts of wind.
- 5intransitive verb
To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.
- 6noun
the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies
"two runners started before the gun"
"a twenty gun salute"
- 7noun
a pedal that controls the throttle valve
"he stepped on the gas"
Synonyms
- 8noun
large but transportable armament
- 9noun
a hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine
- 10noun
a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
- 11noun
a professional killer who uses a gun
- 12noun
a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
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- 13verb
shoot with a gun
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