gun

Meaning

Noun

1. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
2. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
3. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
4. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
5. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
6. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
7. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
8. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
9. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
10. A 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).
11. A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
12. (colloquial) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
13. An electron gun.
14. (colloquial) The biceps.
15. Violent blasts of wind.
16. (colloquial) An expert.
17. (slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.

Verb

1. To cause to speed up.
2. (informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
3. (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
4. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
5. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
6. (slang) Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).

Verb

Nonstandard spelling of going to.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡʌn/

Etymology

From Middle English gunne, gonne, possibly from Gunnhild, a female given name formerly used as a nickname for engines of war. The name is composed of the Norse elements gunnr and hildr, both meaning "battle".