gun down
枪击事件,枪击案,枪毙,枪杀
Related Words
Definitions
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- : a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance.
- : any portable firearm, as a rifle, shotgun, or revolver.
- : a long-barreled cannon having a relatively flat trajectory.
- : any device for shooting something under pressure: a paint gun; a staple gun.
- : Slang. a person whose profession is killing; professional killer: a gangland gun.
- : British. a member of a shooting party.
- : electron gun.
- : Slang. a player’s throwing arm.guns, the biceps or triceps of the arms: his big, muscular guns.
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gunned, gun·ning.
- : to shoot with a gun: The guards gunned down the fleeing convict.
- : to cause to increase in speed very quickly by increasing the supply of fuel.
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gunned, gun·ning.
- : to hunt with a gun.
- : to shoot with a gun.
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- : gun for, to seek with intent to harm or kill.to seek; try earnestly to obtain: He is gunning for a raise.
Phrases
- gun for
- gung ho
- at gunpoint
- big cheese (gun)
- great guns
- hired gun
- hold a gun to someone's head
- jump the gun
- smoking gun
- son of a bitch (gun)
- stick to one's guns
- under the gun
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Federal prosecutors said he acquired 144 guns between 2013 and 2019 and transferred 98 of them to others.
However, finding the “smoking gun” — catching a simultaneous neutrino and radio burst from the same magnetar — will be challenging because such neutrinos would be rare and hard to find, says astrophysicist Brian Metzger of Columbia University.
A statewide reporting project that included VOSD and dozens of other newsrooms last year found that California was only one of five states without uniform regulations for taking a police officer’s badge and gun away.
From the high schoolers in Parkland and beyond, this generation has been the most outspoken about the need for gun control.
For example, you could assume all independent first-time Minnesota voters who have liked the Bass Pro Shop are likely to care about gun rights.
“You can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.
That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.
I mean, the reality of it was, I had to go out and get on a horse, and ride in, shoot the gun — how hard was that, right?
They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.
Frias—who was arrested in 2013 for interfering with public duties and public intoxication—was not carrying a gun at the time.
This was no strange sight to the boy by that time, but it was awkward in the circumstances, for he had neither gun nor spear.
He turned at the sound of my voice with vastly more concern than he'd betrayed under the muzzle of Piegan's gun.
He was a good judge of men, that eagle-faced major; he knew that the slightest move with hostile intent would mean a smoking gun.
Here Robinson suddenly turned pale, and, hastily reaching out for his gun, sprang to his feet.
I begged him to come down here, but he wouldn't—says that his hand is no longer steady enough to hold a gun—it's awful!