Shotgun
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Shotgun
Noun
- A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
"The farmer's son brought home a Thanksgiving turkey from the wild that he killed with his shotgun."
- The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat. Can also be used in situations of claiming other resources such as bedrooms.
"I call shotgun!"
- A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
"Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi."
- An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.
- Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense.
"shotgun cartridges"
Verb
- To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
- To verbally lay claim to (something)
"I got a day off because I shotgunned it."
- To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
- To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
- To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
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