How to pronounce “gun”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
• A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
• (surfing) 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).
• (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
• (colloquial, metonymic) A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.
• (television) An electron gun.
• (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
• (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
• (Australia, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To cause to speed up.
• (informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
• (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
• To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
• To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
• (ambitransitive, US, prison slang, of a male prisoner) Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).

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