Usually means: Ambitious student overly eager excel.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. gunner: Merriam-Webster
  2. gunner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gunner: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gunner: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gunner: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gunner, gunner: Wordnik
  7. gunner: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gunner, gunner: Wiktionary
  9. gunner: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gunner: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gunner: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gunner, gunner: Dictionary.com
  13. gunner: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Gunner (American football), Gunner (artillery), Gunner (cocktail), Gunner (disambiguation), Gunner (dog), Gunner (gridiron football), Gunner (name), Gunner (rank), Gunner (student), Gunner (wrestler), Gunner: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gunner: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gunner: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gunner: Rhymezone
  18. Gunner: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gunner: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. gunner: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. Gunner: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. gunner: FreeDictionary.org
  23. gunner: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. gunner: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. gunner: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gunner: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gunner, gunner, gunner, gunner, gunner, gunner, gunner, gunner: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. gunner: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (soccer) someone connected with Arsenal Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (military) An artillery soldier, especially one who holds private rank.
noun:  A person who operates a gun.
noun:  (figuratively) An excessive go-getter; one exhibiting over-ambition.
noun:  (American football) A player on the kicking team whose primary job is to tackle the kickoff returner or punt returner.
noun:  (UK, slang, soccer) A fan of the Arsenal Football Club.
noun:  The great northern diver or loon.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, dialect) The sea bream, especially Pagellus bogaraveo (blackspot sea bream)
noun:  (basketball) A player who can reliably shoot baskets.
noun:  (regional, Cebu, slang) The person designated to pour drinks in a drinking session.

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