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gun
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gun
1. weapon for firing a projectile.
2. of the top rank, e.g. gun shearer.

balling gun
see balling gun.
dart gun
gun dog
one of the group of domestic dogs developed for use in hunting fowl. The dogs work with the hunter by detecting the scent of birds on the ground, then indicating their location (setters, pointers) or flushing them from the undergrowth, or by retrieving the fallen bird (retrievers). Called also sporting dogs.
drenching gun
a handheld metal automatic syringe capable of delivering a preset dose of agent, most commonly an anthelmintic, and with a variable dose up to about 4 oz or about 120 ml, via the mouth.

gun
noun Drug slang A regionally popular street term for a syringeVox populi A device used to discharge a projectile in a targeted direction. See Gene gun, Heavy guns verb Drug slang To inject an illicit drug–regionally popular.


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Nagle's report, which I thought, to put it charitably, was jumping the gun.
We're not in the same situation as in the 1970s," harrumphed Carl Haub of the Population Reference Bureau who, when apprised of the UN's latest figures, accused the world body of jumping the gun.
Maurice Greene, the Fastest Man Alive, Is Asked the Secret of His Success He answers almost before the question's out, neither jumping the gun, nor waiting around for the undulation of sound to lap him, but, surging on the still moment of the thought's articulation, he foots the border of start and stop.
 
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