shotgun
shotgun is a polysyllabic word with 2 syllables. Using the Knuth-Liang algorithm, we calculated the hyphenation for the word you’ve entered. However, this hyphenation has not been verified against authoritative sources and may be approximate. This is because the algorithm relies on pre-defined patterns that may not cover all exceptions, contextual variations, or irregular spellings. We are working to verify hyphenations against trusted sources to ensure greater accuracy. For now, shotgun is hyphenated as:
Definitions ofshotgun
- A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
Example: "Meat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun."
- 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.
Example: "I call shotgun! (I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.)"
- A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
Example: "Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi."
- 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.
- (as a modifier) Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense: e.g. shotgun cartridges, shotgun seat.
- (as a modifier) Relating to the threat of force or dubious means: e.g. shotgun wedding, shotgun diplomacy.
- (as a modifier) Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result: e.g. shotgun marketing, a shotgun approach.
- (smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
- To verbally lay claim to (something)
Example: "I got a day off because I shotgunned it."
- To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
- 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.
- 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.
- To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.
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