Is “Shotgun” a Scrabble word?
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Meaning of Shotgun
1.A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
“Meat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun.”
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.
“I call shotgun! (I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.)”
3.A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
“Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.”
Synonyms: scattergun, death seat
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)
“I got a day off because I shotgunned it.”
3.To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.