Usually means: Primitive firearm, shoots with sparks.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. potgun: Merriam-Webster
  2. potgun: Collins English Dictionary
  3. potgun: Wordnik
  4. potgun: Wiktionary
  5. Potgun: Dictionary.com
  6. Potgun: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. potgun: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Potgun: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. potgun: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. potgun: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Potgun: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. potgun: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (potgun)

▸ noun:  (obsolete) A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A pop gun.

Similar:
pumpgun, cannon, partridge, gunstone, pott, pila, gunpad, gunport, hand cannon, pounder, more...

Opposite:
shotgun, rifle, firearm

Types:
shotgun, pump-action shotgun, automatic shotgun, sawed-off shotgun, more...

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Similar:
pumpgun, cannon, partridge, gunstone, pott, pila, gunpad, gunport, hand cannon, pounder, more...

Opposite:
shotgun, rifle, firearm

Types:
shotgun, pump-action shotgun, automatic shotgun, sawed-off shotgun, more...



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