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(US, military slang, derogatory) Synonym of 11 Bang-Bang
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The state of a firearm when it is possible to be fired.
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(video games) The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
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Alternative form of bombard phrase [(obsolete) Inflated language; bombast.]
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(MLE, criminal slang) Homicide by gunfire.
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(informal, figuratively) The maximum damage that a weapon can deliver.
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A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
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A stage illusion in which the magician appears to catch a fired bullet, typically in the mouth or in the hand.
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Alternative form of bumpfire [To fire a gun using bumpfire, either deliberately or accidentally.]
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Alternative form of bumpfire [To fire a gun using bumpfire, either deliberately or accidentally.]
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To fire a gun using bumpfire, either deliberately or accidentally.
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The action of the verb bumpfire
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A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
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A mark to be shot at; a target.
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To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.
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(slang) A bullet used to shoot someone.
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(literature) A dramatic principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed.
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(US, dated, slang) Bullets; gunfire.
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(firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
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A shot made in response to another shot (as from a gun or cannon).
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(MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
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(firearms, primarily of revolvers) Requiring only a trigger pull to both cock and fire.
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Two shots or bullets such fired.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see double, barrelled. Having two barrels, as a gun.
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(military) To load cannons with twice the shot, for increased damage at the expense of range.
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(figuratively, transitive) To be directed toward (something) like enfilading gunfire.
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The act of shooting at each other by antagonists armed with guns.
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(rare, Israel) Genuine delight or pride in another person's achievement or in something good that has happened or may happen to another person.
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Shots from a gun or guns, typically creating loud report.
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The act of discharging a firearm.
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(firearms) To occupy a headspace.
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(literally) A gunshot wound to the head.
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The trigger finger of a person eager to fire their weapon or likely to do so unexpectedly.
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The area of the chest and abdomen where a bullet is most likely to kill its target.
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A lightweight submachine gun, usually capable of being fired with one hand (but sometimes with a second grip at the front of the barrel and then fired like a rifle).
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The act of drawing a second handgun when the first jams or runs out of ammunition, rather than reloading the first, in order to gain a speed advantage.
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Involving a single gunshot.
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Alternative form of over and under [A double-barreled shotgun (or infrequently a rifle), with one barrel placed on top of the other.]
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(countable) The detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm.
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A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm.
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(firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
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(of a gun) Able to fire bullets in quick succession.
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(firearms) A rifle or pistol cartridge containing small shot instead of a single projectile.
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(firearms) The sharp, loud sound from a gun or explosion.
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To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
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(drugs, slang) A room where heroin users shoot heroin.
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The random shooting of multiple people with no obvious motive.
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(of a bullet) having an exposed lead point, designed to expand when it hits its target and therefore cause more damage.
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(informal) A heavy artillery bombardment.
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(firearms) To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.
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A bullet wound in which the bullet passes through the body.
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To fire (a single action revolver) quickly by pulling the hammer while keeping the trigger depressed.
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(online gaming) A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain command.
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a finger used in pulling the trigger of a firearm
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An event, arrangement, provocation, etc. that leads a certain, generally violent or angered, action to be taken.
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(by extension) Inclined to behave recklessly or violently at the slightest provocation.
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(rare) Likely to trigger or set off something.
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A triggerman or triggerwoman.
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The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired.
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(informal, shooting) An injury caused to the shooter's face when the recoil from a powerful rifle pushes the telescopic sight forcefully against the face of the shooter.
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