Le mot anglais du jour

gun

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Définitions

anglais > français
gun
1. n. (Armement) Fusil, arme à feu.
2. n. (Argot) (Plus rare) Désigne le pénis.
3. v. Flinguer (quelqu'un), fusiller (quelqu'un), abattre (aussi dans l'expression gun down).
John Wilkes Booth was gunned down.
John Wilkes Booth fut flingué.
4. v. Se précipiter (généralement dans l'expression gun it).
You'd better gun it, if you wanna outrun the cops!
Tu ferais mieux d'appuyer sur le champignon si tu ne veux pas être rattrapé par les flics !
anglais > anglais
gun
1. n. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.
Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised up his gun at the approaching deer.
2. n. A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol or Derringer.
3. n. A less portable, long firearm, bullet or projectile firing; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
4. n. (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.JP 1-02. Department of
5. n. (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
6. n. (figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.Wp
7. n. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
There are some guns that are not designed for killing.
8. n. Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
air-pressure pellet gun; air rifle; BB gun; zipgun; nail gun; a potato gun
9. n. A device or tool that projects a substance.
a squirt gun; a spray gun; a grease gun
10. n. A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
a rivet gun; a screw gun; a price-label gun
11. n. (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
12. n. (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
13. n. (colloquial, metonym) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
14. n. (colloquial, usually plural) The biceps.
15. n. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
16. v. (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.
He gunned down the hitmen.
The CEO gunned down that idea before we could present it to the board.
17. v. To speed something up.
He gunned the engine.
18. v. To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.
He’s gunning for you.
19. v. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.
He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.
20. v. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
21. v. nonstandard spelling of going to
I'm gun go get da gun from da closet.
français > anglais
pistolet
1. n-m. gun, pistol
2. n-m. spray gun
3. n-m. weird person