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The correct spelling is shotgun.
How to pronounce shotgun
/ˈʃɒtɡʌn/
nounIPA: /ˈʃɒtɡʌn/
Say it like: Sho-tgu-n
The correct spelling is shotgun. A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge. For example: "Meat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun."
Usage Examples
“Meat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun.”
“I call shotgun! (I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.)”
“Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
- 2.The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat.
- 3.A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
- 4.An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.
- 5.(as a modifier) Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense: e.g. shotgun cartridges, shotgun seat.
verb
- 1.(smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
- 2.To verbally lay claim to (something)
- 3.To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
- 4.To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
- 5.To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
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