BLUNDERBUSS meaning: Antique firearm with flared muzzle

We found 28 dictionaries that define the word blunderbuss:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

blunderbuss: Merriam-Webster
blunderbuss: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
blunderbuss: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
blunderbuss: Collins English Dictionary
blunderbuss: Vocabulary.com
Blunderbuss, blunderbuss: Wordnik
blunderbuss: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
blunderbuss: Wiktionary
blunderbuss: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
blunderbuss: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
blunderbuss: Infoplease Dictionary
Blunderbuss, blunderbuss: Dictionary.com
blunderbuss: Online Etymology Dictionary
Blunderbuss (album), Blunderbuss (disambiguation), Blunderbuss: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Blunderbuss: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
blunderbuss: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
blunderbuss: Rhymezone
Blunderbuss: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
blunderbuss: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Blunderbuss: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
blunderbuss: FreeDictionary.org
blunderbuss: Mnemonic Dictionary
blunderbuss: TheFreeDictionary.com
blunderbuss: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

blunderbuss, blunderbuss, blunderbuss: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
blunderbuss: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun: An old style of muzzleloading firearm and early form of shotgun with a distinctive short, large caliber barrel that is flared at the muzzle, therefore able to fire scattered quantities of nails, stones, shot, etc. at short range.
▸ verb: (transitive) To shoot with a blunderbuss.

Opposite:

precision, accuracy, finesse, expertise

Types:

musket, rifle, shotgun, more...

Phrases:

apex blunderbuss, more...

Adjectives:

old, rusty, loaded, mouthed, ancient, great, large, short, huge, fashioned, little

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