Definition of gun

"gun" in the noun sense

1. gun

a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)

2. artillery, heavy weapon, gun, ordnance

large but transportable armament

3. gunman, gun

a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)

4. gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter

a professional killer who uses a gun

5. grease gun, gun

a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol forces grease into parts of a machine

6. accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle, gun

a pedal that controls the throttle valve

"he stepped on the gas"

7. gun

the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies

"two runners started before the gun"

"a twenty gun salute"

"gun" in the verb sense

1. gun

shoot with a gun

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for gun

As sure as a gun. [ Dryden ]

God created man, but Sam Colt made them equal! [ Unknown ]

He carries too big a gun for me, I must not engage him. [ Proverb ]

He a soldier, and knows not onion-seed from gun-powder? [ Proverb ]

I will give up my gun when they pry it from my cold dead fingers. [ Unknown ]

If God didn't want holsters to be leather, he wouldn't have made so many damn cows. [ Unknown ]

Never hunt trouble. However dead a shot one may be, the gun he carries on such expeditions is sure to kick, or go off half-cocked. [ Artemus Ward ]

I consider your very testy and quarrelsome people in the same light as I do a loaded gun, which may, by accident, go off and kill one. [ William Shenstone ]

You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong. [ Bob Hagel ]

He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, Dust to dust, some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, I'll be waiting for you in heaven - with a gun. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron! and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice. Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

gun in Scrabble®

The word gun is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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gun in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words within the letters of gun

2 letter words in gun (2 words)

3 letter words in gun (Anagrams) (2 words)

gun + 1 blank (9 words)

Word Growth involving gun

Shorter words in gun

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Longer words containing gun

airgun airguns

begun rebegun

blowgun blowguns

burgundies

burgundy

dilogun

flashgun flashguns

gunbarrel

gunboat gunboats

guncotton guncottons

gundog gundogs

gunfight gunfighter gunfighters

gunfight gunfighting

gunfight gunfights

gunfire gunfires

gunflint gunflints

gunhouse gunhouses

gunite

gunk degunk degunked

gunk degunk degunkified

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gunk degunk degunkify degunkifying

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gunk gunkhole gunkholed

gunk gunkhole gunkholes

gunk gunkier

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gunk gunks degunks

gunk gunky

gunless

gunlock gunlocks

gunmaker gunmakers

gunmaking

gunman gunmanship

gunmen

gunmetal gunmetals

gunned machinegunned

gunned outgunned

gunned shotgunned

gunned tailgunned

gunner gunners machinegunners

gunner gunners shotgunners

gunner gunners tailgunners

gunner gunnery

gunner machinegunner machinegunners

gunner shotgunner shotgunners

gunner tailgunner tailgunners

gunning machinegunning

gunning outgunning

gunning shotgunning

gunning tailgunning

gunny gunnysack gunnysacks

gunplay gunplays

gunpoint gunpoints

gunport gunports

gunpowder gunpowders

gunpower gunpowers

gunreach

gunroom gunrooms

gunrunner gunrunners

gunrunning

guns airguns

guns blowguns

guns flashguns

guns gunship gunships

guns gunshop

guns gunshot gunshots

guns gunsight gunsights

guns gunslinger gunslingers

guns gunslinging

guns gunsmith gunsmithing

guns gunsmith gunsmiths

guns gunstock gunstocks

guns handguns

guns machineguns

guns outguns

guns popguns

guns scatterguns

guns shoguns

guns shotguns

guns sixguns

guns spearguns

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gunter gunters

handgun handguns

machinegun machinegunned

machinegun machinegunner machinegunners

machinegun machinegunning

machinegun machineguns

merindinlogun

outgun outgunned

outgun outgunning

outgun outguns

popgun popguns

salmagundi salmagundis

scattergun scatterguns

shogun shoguns

shotgun shotgunned

shotgun shotgunner shotgunners

shotgun shotgunning

shotgun shotguns

sixgun sixguns

speargun spearguns

tailgun tailgunned

tailgun tailgunner tailgunners

tailgun tailgunning

tailgun tailguns