gun
/ˈɡʌn/ verb C2- To shoot with a gun.
- To cause to speed up. · He gunned the engine.
- To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause). · We're all gunning for you.
- To strongly desire or seek, and make a great effort to obtain (something which one is 'gunning for' or 'gunning to do').
- To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for. · He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.
- To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
- Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).
He/she/it guns · Past gunned · Past participle gunned · -ing form gunning
Verb forms
- Base form
- gun
- He/she/it
- guns
- Past
- gunned
- Past participle
- gunned
- -ing form
- gunning
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Then I examined the gun.
The sawed gun was not more than two foot long—one could carry it easily under one’s coat.
Do you carry the names of all the gun makers in the world in your memory?”
“The open window, the blood on the sill, the queer card, the marks of boots in the corner, the gun!”
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