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Another word for gun

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Verb

  1. To wound or kill with a firearm.

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    help

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Another word for gun

Noun

  1. A cannon

    See also:

    rocket

    cannon

    artillery

  2. A portable firearm].

    • A device suggestive of a gun

    Idioms:

      give-it-the-gun

      2. go-great-guns

      3. jump-the-gun

      4. stick-to-one-s-guns

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    Sentence Examples

    • I never shot a gun in my life.

    • He raised his gun and fired at the great beast.

    • She'd learned self-defense by the age of eleven and how to shoot a gun when she was twelve.

    • The warm farmhouse smelled of gun oil and breakfast.

    • People can't just shoot a gun anywhere they want to, can they?

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