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
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.
4. noun. Violent blasts of wind.
5. intransitive verb. To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.
6. noun. the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies

   "two runners started before the gun"

   "a twenty gun salute"

7. noun. a pedal that controls the throttle valve

   "he stepped on the gas"

   Synonyms: accelerator, gas, throttle

8. noun. large but transportable armament

   Synonyms: artillery, ordnance

9. noun. a hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine
10. noun. a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
11. noun. a professional killer who uses a gun

    Synonyms: gunman, gunslinger, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman

12. noun. a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)

    Synonyms: gunman

13. verb. shoot with a gun

Synonyms

accelerator, gas, throttle, artillery, ordnance, gunman, gunslinger, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in gun:

gnu, ngu, nug, ung

Common word forms

guns, gunned, gunner, gunless, gunning

Words from these letters

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