shotgun

Shotgun — Shot gun , n. A light, smooth bored gun, often double barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

shotgun — index gun Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

Shotgun — For other uses, see Shotgun (disambiguation). A pump action Remington 870, two semi automatic …   Wikipedia

shotgun — /shot gun /, n., adj., v., shotgunned, shotgunning. n. 1. a smoothbore gun for firing small shot to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals. 2. Football. an offensive formation, designed primarily… …   Universalium

shotgun — 1. noun a) A gun which fires loads consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge. I call shotgun! (I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.) b) The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because… …   Wiktionary

shotgun — ˈʃɔtɡʌn механизированное приспособление для развинчивания труб (военное) дробовик, дробовое ружье (военное) (американизм) пулемет > * marriage вынужденная женитьба; брак …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

Shotgun! — 1) Общая лексика: Я занято на переднем! (VERB to (call) shotgun derived from American Western/cowboy (films) where a person acting as security guard would ride shotgun ie: ride in the passenger seat next to the driver whi) 2) Разговорное… …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

shotgun — [ ʃɒtgʌn] 1) Общая лексика: дробовик, дробовое ружьё, вынужденный, беспорядочный, бессистемный, не прицельный, с широким охватом 2) Компьютерная техника: (connections) связывать/спаривать соединения в одно (напр.: широкополосное с модемным или… …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

shotgun — I. noun Date: 1776 1. a smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges 2. an offensive football formation in which the quarterback plays a few yards behind the line of scrimmage and the other backs are scattered as flankers or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

Shotgun — Der Begriff Shotgun (von engl. shotgun = Schrotflinte) bezeichnet: eine Flinte eine molekularbiologische Methode zur Entschlüsselung von Genomen, siehe Shotgun Sequencing einen Haustyp, der vor allem im Süden der USA verbreitet ist, siehe Shotgun …   Deutsch Wikipedia