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
Scarlet coat and pointed gun,
The big man has gone for his gun!
“‘In order to reach the billiard-room I had to descend a flight of stairs and then to cross the head of a passage which led to the library and the gun-room.
On the evening of our arrival we were sitting in the Colonel’s gun-room after dinner, Holmes stretched upon the sofa, while Hayter and I looked over his little armoury of fire-arms.
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