Definition of shotgun in English:

shotgun

nounˈʃɒtɡʌnˈʃɑtˌɡən

1A smooth-bore gun for firing small shot at short range.
Example sentencesExamples
- If you're using a shotgun at short range you'll generally score a hit, but with a handgun at long range you end up wasting ammo more than anything else.
- He reloaded his shotgun to fire the second shot.
- One thug brandishing a shotgun kept watch while the other three, armed with a machete and an iron bar, rushed inside and grabbed hundreds of Rolex, Omega and Cartier watches.
- In the first week of the amnesty, eight weapons were surrendered to Bolton police, including a rifle, a shotgun, three air rifles, two air pistols and an imitation gun.
- The suspected burglar fled the farm but was later discovered nearby with a minor wound in his leg caused by shotgun pellets.
- Security guards were robbed at gunpoint by raiders wielding a sawn-off shotgun and a pistol.
- Kimmitt said troops at the scene found a variety of weapons, including shotguns, handguns, rifles and machine guns.
- Final returns are still being evaluated, but the haul includes hand guns, rifles, shotguns, air guns and imitation firearms.
- He was captured with an assault rifle, a shotgun, and two pistols.
- Spent shotgun cartridges have been recovered from the scene.
- Did anyone check to see if the shotgun was loaded?
- With the advent of the self-contained cartridge, repeating rifles, shotguns and handguns replaced single shots.
- Few firearms are as visually intimidating as a double-barreled shotgun.
- Two firearms, a shotgun and a rifle, were confiscated at the scene.
2North American informal The front passenger seat in a vehicle.
as modifier I took the shotgun seat
Example sentencesExamples
- If I was pitching that day, my warmup would generally consist of throwing someone's socks to the shotgun seat from the back.
- The car's driver and shotgun seats are all manually controlled, which is to be expected in an all electric vehicle.
- I can only imagine that when Zack takes his friends places, he gets both the driver's seat and shotgun.
- I told him to strap himself in and then slid into the driver's seat as Nana took shotgun.
- I had a '60 Ford Galaxie back in the 60s that had a rust hole behind the "shotgun" seat.
- Juan takes shotgun and is supposed to be in charge of the tunes while making sure I don't get lost.
1. 2.1as exclamation Used to claim the right to sit in the front passenger seat of a vehicle on a particular journey.
  ‘Shotgun!’ she yelled and tossed the keys to Veronica
  Example sentencesExamples
  I watched two men with bulging backpacks descend the stairs and load them into the boot, nearly filling it up. "Shotgun!" one of them said.
  The second I closed the door, I shouted "Shotgun!"
  "Shotgun!" Benjamin called as he jumped into the passenger side.
  "Shotgun!" he shouted, scurrying to the passenger side.
  Did he yell out "Shotgun" to ride up front with the engineer?

adjectiveˈʃɒtɡʌnˈʃɑtˌɡən

North American

1Aimed at a wide range of things; having no specific target.
many companies use the shotgun approach, aiming advertising at the widest possible audience
Example sentencesExamples
- One other lesson and that is you cannot build or strengthen institutions using a shotgun approach.
- I am taking the shotgun approach to the insurance question.
- All companies want to up-sell and cross-sell current customers, but most take a shotgun approach.
- I love George and wish him well, but the shotgun approach strikes me as counterproductive.
- Like tiny divining rods, these drugs hunt down only diseased cells, avoiding the shotgun approach of past chemotherapies.
2Denoting a long, narrow single-storey house whose rooms are arranged one behind another.
his family lived in a shotgun shack in South Memphis
Example sentencesExamples
- Two years ago the council blocked the demolition of a 100-year-old, uninhabitable shotgun cottage.
- On the icy road to nowhere, the car flips over the railing and lands near a seemingly abandoned shotgun shack.
- The following day, after a pilgrimage to Elvis's childhood home (a two roomed shotgun shack in Tupelo) we headed for Fulton, a small town in Northern Mississippi.
- She uses a "little shotgun shack in a checkered neighborhood in Lexington" as an art and writing studio.
- Neighbors were attempting to avoid further development in the chronically cramped neighborhood of shotgun cottages.
- They don't live on the wrong side of the tracks in McIntyre, Ga. Their shotgun shack lies virtually on the railroad tracks.
- George invited him to stay the night in the family's shotgun shack.
- Upgrading shotgun shacks to uber-rich steel and glass high-rises is as simple as clicking through a transparent overlay, provided you have the funds.

verb ˈʃɒtɡʌnˈʃɑtˌɡən

[with object]

1Shoot at or kill with a shotgun.
he had been shotgunned by drug dealers
Example sentencesExamples
- One of the star prosecution witnesses had been shotgunned to death.
- He was shotgunned in the back while lying on the floor of the convenience store where he worked as a clerk.
- He's the murderer. He shotgunned his wife and her fancy man
- One came driving at me, so I shotgunned him in the head as he drove past.
- He acknowledged he shotgunned his parents to death.
2North American informal Consume (a canned drink) in one go by puncturing the can, putting one’s mouth over the resulting hole, and then opening the can by means of the ring pull to produce a rapid flow.
a group of us shotgunned beers
Example sentencesExamples
- The video sees the band members going into party mode, shotgunning beers and frolicking around in a swimming pool.
- We went in the pool, had a water bomb fight, ate pizza, shotgunned cans of fanta and sprite, watched Scary Movie 4 and played some card games.
- He's signalling to the ref that they are to shotgun the beers!
- By the end of their day together he has shotgunned a Bud Light and gotten a new tattoo.
- Eventually I stumbled out of the place, shotgunning a Mountain Dew.
- It's refreshing to see sommeliers who would be just as comfortable shotgunning beers in a frat house as evaluating high-end Bordeaux at a French chateau.
- The video follows Shana Cleveland on an introspective winter walk through Index, WA while the rest of the band shotgun beers and drive around in truck beds.
- Just reading the names together in one sentence made my head start banging furiously and caused me to shotgun a beer.
- Soon we were on the road, with Mark shotgunning Red Bulls at every stop while sipping them in between.
- Some of the more common methods of consuming alcohol like taking shots, keg parties, shotgunning cans of beer, binge drinking etc. etc. doesn't seem to be enough for some alcohol consumers.
- Kelsey and I just shotgunned cans of Pepsi in front of our house in honor of her 21st birthday.

Phrases

call shotgun

informal Claim the right to sit in the front passenger seat of a vehicle on a particular journey.
my girlfriend called shotgun, so I sat in the back seat
Example sentencesExamples
- If that politician ever asks to go for a ride, call shotgun.
- Janet remembers when the rules were simple: windows down and radio up, everyone chipped in for gas and shotgun went to whoever called it first.
- Adults can fit in the cheap seats way out back, but the tallest ones will want to call shotgun on long trips.
- Rocky called shotgun so I got in the back.
- None of your passengers will be calling shotgun, and you might make a habit of letting friends drive, so you can lounge in back.
- Significant others of the driver or other people related (non-siblings) to the driver need not call shotgun.
- I call shotgun: Kiri usually claims the best spot at the front of the sidecar, leaving Mari and Hine to perch behind.

ride shotgun

1informal Travel as a guard next to the driver of a vehicle.
police have begun riding shotgun on buses to protect frightened drivers and passengers
Example sentencesExamples
- One crew came under such sustained abuse that town hall chiefs ordered Neighbourhood Safety officers to ride shotgun on the truck to stop the attacks.
- Wyatt rode shotgun for Wells Fargo stagecoaches and moonlighted as a gambler.
- It goes like this: the secret service agents detailed to ride shotgun on the motorcade went out drinking the night before.
- We need someone to ride shotgun with our first responders-more guns, right?
- When I rode shotgun for truck drivers, my weapon of choice was a 12-gauge pump-action.
1. 1.1Ride in the front passenger seat of a vehicle.
  Jacob got in the back seat next to Katie and Jessica rode shotgun
  Example sentencesExamples
  I walked away with a minor break to my arm but my brother who was riding shotgun in the front seat required stitches after his head impacted the windshield.
  They honk to her and the man riding shotgun gets out and lets her into the front passenger seat.
  The car packed, we left early the next day, me driving and my son riding shotgun with his "Death Jar" containing the now dead (hopefully) spider.
  Her son, riding shotgun, proudly filmed his mother driving and then posted it on YouTube.
  One Porsche fan will be given the chance to ride shotgun in the one-off 911 on Britain's Silverstone circuit.
  Last year, she rode shotgun in a NASCAR vehicle for several laps at a California racetrack.
  The Corvette has a refined ride quality that will appeal not only to drivers but the lady friends who will inevitably be riding shotgun.
  To begin with, only lightly used rural or suburban roads will be used, and with a person riding shotgun ready to take over in emergencies.
  The ride did sit well with the team sponsor and his country's minister of sport, who rode shotgun in the team's car.
  "It makes the interior feel very open," said Tom, who rode shotgun on a trip to Michigan.
  If your dog likes to ride shotgun with you in the car, margarine tubs are the perfect utensil for dog food and water to-go.
  The redhead riding shotgun turned and looked at me with disgust.

Definition of shotgun in US English:

shotgun

nounˈʃɑtˌɡənˈSHätˌɡən

1A smoothbore gun for firing small shot at short range.
Example sentencesExamples
- He was captured with an assault rifle, a shotgun, and two pistols.
- Kimmitt said troops at the scene found a variety of weapons, including shotguns, handguns, rifles and machine guns.
- Final returns are still being evaluated, but the haul includes hand guns, rifles, shotguns, air guns and imitation firearms.
- Security guards were robbed at gunpoint by raiders wielding a sawn-off shotgun and a pistol.
- Two firearms, a shotgun and a rifle, were confiscated at the scene.
- Spent shotgun cartridges have been recovered from the scene.
- If you're using a shotgun at short range you'll generally score a hit, but with a handgun at long range you end up wasting ammo more than anything else.
- Few firearms are as visually intimidating as a double-barreled shotgun.
- The suspected burglar fled the farm but was later discovered nearby with a minor wound in his leg caused by shotgun pellets.
- One thug brandishing a shotgun kept watch while the other three, armed with a machete and an iron bar, rushed inside and grabbed hundreds of Rolex, Omega and Cartier watches.
- With the advent of the self-contained cartridge, repeating rifles, shotguns and handguns replaced single shots.
- He reloaded his shotgun to fire the second shot.
- Did anyone check to see if the shotgun was loaded?
- In the first week of the amnesty, eight weapons were surrendered to Bolton police, including a rifle, a shotgun, three air rifles, two air pistols and an imitation gun.
2North American informal The front passenger seat in a vehicle.
Katherine sits in shotgun and gives Maria directions
as modifier all the back benches in the shuttle were full when I arrived, so I took the shotgun seat
Example sentencesExamples
- The car's driver and shotgun seats are all manually controlled, which is to be expected in an all electric vehicle.
- I can only imagine that when Zack takes his friends places, he gets both the driver's seat and shotgun.
- Juan takes shotgun and is supposed to be in charge of the tunes while making sure I don't get lost.
- I told him to strap himself in and then slid into the driver's seat as Nana took shotgun.
- If I was pitching that day, my warmup would generally consist of throwing someone's socks to the shotgun seat from the back.
- I had a '60 Ford Galaxie back in the 60s that had a rust hole behind the "shotgun" seat.
1. 2.1as exclamation Used to claim the right to sit in the front passenger seat of a vehicle on a particular journey.
  ‘Shotgun!’ she yelled and tossed the keys to Veronica
  Example sentencesExamples
  "Shotgun!" he shouted, scurrying to the passenger side.
  Did he yell out "Shotgun" to ride up front with the engineer?
  The second I closed the door, I shouted "Shotgun!"
  "Shotgun!" Benjamin called as he jumped into the passenger side.
  I watched two men with bulging backpacks descend the stairs and load them into the boot, nearly filling it up. "Shotgun!" one of them said.
3American Football
An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap while standing several yards behind the line of scrimmage.
Example sentencesExamples
- He also believes the shotgun can disrupt a quarterback's rhythm with his receivers.
- So with seven yards needed for the first down, the offense lined up in a shotgun formation and went for it.
- In simple terms, it was a shotgun formation with two receivers to each side.
- Early in the season, Moore struggled with snaps out of the shotgun formation.
- There are rumblings that some high up in the organization will encourage the new coaching staff to include the shotgun formation in the offense.

adjectiveˈʃɑtˌɡənˈSHätˌɡən

North American

1Aimed at a wide range of things; having no specific target.
many companies use the shotgun approach, aiming advertising at the widest possible audience
Example sentencesExamples
- I love George and wish him well, but the shotgun approach strikes me as counterproductive.
- I am taking the shotgun approach to the insurance question.
- Like tiny divining rods, these drugs hunt down only diseased cells, avoiding the shotgun approach of past chemotherapies.
- All companies want to up-sell and cross-sell current customers, but most take a shotgun approach.
- One other lesson and that is you cannot build or strengthen institutions using a shotgun approach.
2Denoting a long, narrow single-story house whose rooms are arranged one behind another.
his family lived in a shotgun shack in South Memphis
Example sentencesExamples
- George invited him to stay the night in the family's shotgun shack.
- Two years ago the council blocked the demolition of a 100-year-old, uninhabitable shotgun cottage.
- Neighbors were attempting to avoid further development in the chronically cramped neighborhood of shotgun cottages.
- They don't live on the wrong side of the tracks in McIntyre, Ga. Their shotgun shack lies virtually on the railroad tracks.
- On the icy road to nowhere, the car flips over the railing and lands near a seemingly abandoned shotgun shack.
- Upgrading shotgun shacks to uber-rich steel and glass high-rises is as simple as clicking through a transparent overlay, provided you have the funds.
- The following day, after a pilgrimage to Elvis's childhood home (a two roomed shotgun shack in Tupelo) we headed for Fulton, a small town in Northern Mississippi.
- She uses a "little shotgun shack in a checkered neighborhood in Lexington" as an art and writing studio.

verbˈʃɑtˌɡənˈSHätˌɡən

[with object]

1Shoot at or kill with a shotgun.
he had been shotgunned by drug dealers
Example sentencesExamples
- He acknowledged he shotgunned his parents to death.
- One of the star prosecution witnesses had been shotgunned to death.
- One came driving at me, so I shotgunned him in the head as he drove past.
- He's the murderer. He shotgunned his wife and her fancy man
- He was shotgunned in the back while lying on the floor of the convenience store where he worked as a clerk.
2North American informal Consume (a canned drink) in one go by puncturing the can, putting one’s mouth over the resulting hole, and then opening the can by means of the ring pull to produce a rapid flow.
shotgunning beers
Example sentencesExamples
- The video follows Shana Cleveland on an introspective winter walk through Index, WA while the rest of the band shotgun beers and drive around in truck beds.
- Some of the more common methods of consuming alcohol like taking shots, keg parties, shotgunning cans of beer, binge drinking etc. etc. doesn't seem to be enough for some alcohol consumers.
- Soon we were on the road, with Mark shotgunning Red Bulls at every stop while sipping them in between.
- Just reading the names together in one sentence made my head start banging furiously and caused me to shotgun a beer.
- Eventually I stumbled out of the place, shotgunning a Mountain Dew.
- We went in the pool, had a water bomb fight, ate pizza, shotgunned cans of fanta and sprite, watched Scary Movie 4 and played some card games.
- By the end of their day together he has shotgunned a Bud Light and gotten a new tattoo.
- It's refreshing to see sommeliers who would be just as comfortable shotgunning beers in a frat house as evaluating high-end Bordeaux at a French chateau.
- The video sees the band members going into party mode, shotgunning beers and frolicking around in a swimming pool.
- Kelsey and I just shotgunned cans of Pepsi in front of our house in honor of her 21st birthday.
- He's signalling to the ref that they are to shotgun the beers!

Phrases

call shotgun

informal Claim the right to sit in the front passenger seat of a vehicle on a particular journey.
my girlfriend called shotgun, so I sat in the back seat
Example sentencesExamples
- Significant others of the driver or other people related (non-siblings) to the driver need not call shotgun.
- None of your passengers will be calling shotgun, and you might make a habit of letting friends drive, so you can lounge in back.
- If that politician ever asks to go for a ride, call shotgun.
- I call shotgun: Kiri usually claims the best spot at the front of the sidecar, leaving Mari and Hine to perch behind.
- Rocky called shotgun so I got in the back.
- Janet remembers when the rules were simple: windows down and radio up, everyone chipped in for gas and shotgun went to whoever called it first.
- Adults can fit in the cheap seats way out back, but the tallest ones will want to call shotgun on long trips.

ride shotgun

1informal Travel as a guard in the seat next to the driver of a vehicle.
police armed with automatic rifles ride shotgun on the trucks
Example sentencesExamples
- We need someone to ride shotgun with our first responders-more guns, right?
- Wyatt rode shotgun for Wells Fargo stagecoaches and moonlighted as a gambler.
- One crew came under such sustained abuse that town hall chiefs ordered Neighbourhood Safety officers to ride shotgun on the truck to stop the attacks.
- It goes like this: the secret service agents detailed to ride shotgun on the motorcade went out drinking the night before.
- When I rode shotgun for truck drivers, my weapon of choice was a 12-gauge pump-action.
1. 1.1Ride in the front passenger seat of a vehicle.
  Jacob got in the back seat next to Katie and Jessica rode shotgun
  Example sentencesExamples
  The ride did sit well with the team sponsor and his country's minister of sport, who rode shotgun in the team's car.
  Last year, she rode shotgun in a NASCAR vehicle for several laps at a California racetrack.
  If your dog likes to ride shotgun with you in the car, margarine tubs are the perfect utensil for dog food and water to-go.
  I walked away with a minor break to my arm but my brother who was riding shotgun in the front seat required stitches after his head impacted the windshield.
  Her son, riding shotgun, proudly filmed his mother driving and then posted it on YouTube.
  One Porsche fan will be given the chance to ride shotgun in the one-off 911 on Britain's Silverstone circuit.
  The Corvette has a refined ride quality that will appeal not only to drivers but the lady friends who will inevitably be riding shotgun.
  The car packed, we left early the next day, me driving and my son riding shotgun with his "Death Jar" containing the now dead (hopefully) spider.
  They honk to her and the man riding shotgun gets out and lets her into the front passenger seat.
  To begin with, only lightly used rural or suburban roads will be used, and with a person riding shotgun ready to take over in emergencies.
  "It makes the interior feel very open," said Tom, who rode shotgun on a trip to Michigan.
  The redhead riding shotgun turned and looked at me with disgust.

单词	shotgun
释义	Definition of shotgun in English: shotgun nounˈʃɒtɡʌnˈʃɑtˌɡən 1A smooth-bore gun for firing small shot at short range. Example sentencesExamples If you're using a shotgun at short range you'll generally score a hit, but with a handgun at long range you end up wasting ammo more than anything else. He reloaded his shotgun to fire the second shot. One thug brandishing a shotgun kept watch while the other three, armed with a machete and an iron bar, rushed inside and grabbed hundreds of Rolex, Omega and Cartier watches. In the first week of the amnesty, eight weapons were surrendered to Bolton police, including a rifle, a shotgun, three air rifles, two air pistols and an imitation gun. The suspected burglar fled the farm but was later discovered nearby with a minor wound in his leg caused by shotgun pellets. Security guards were robbed at gunpoint by raiders wielding a sawn-off shotgun and a pistol. Kimmitt said troops at the scene found a variety of weapons, including shotguns, handguns, rifles and machine guns. Final returns are still being evaluated, but the haul includes hand guns, rifles, shotguns, air guns and imitation firearms. He was captured with an assault rifle, a shotgun, and two pistols. Spent shotgun cartridges have been recovered from the scene. Did anyone check to see if the shotgun was loaded? With the advent of the self-contained cartridge, repeating rifles, shotguns and handguns replaced single shots. Few firearms are as visually intimidating as a double-barreled shotgun. Two firearms, a shotgun and a rifle, were confiscated at the scene. 2North American informal The front passenger seat in a vehicle. as modifier I took the shotgun seat Example sentencesExamples If I was pitching that day, my warmup would generally consist of throwing someone's socks to the shotgun seat from the back. The car's driver and shotgun seats are all manually controlled, which is to be expected in an all electric vehicle. I can only imagine that when Zack takes his friends places, he gets both the driver's seat and shotgun. I told him to strap himself in and then slid into the driver's seat as Nana took shotgun. I had a '60 Ford Galaxie back in the 60s that had a rust hole behind the "shotgun" seat. Juan takes shotgun and is supposed to be in charge of the tunes while making sure I don't get lost. 2.1as exclamation Used to claim the right to sit in the front passenger seat of a vehicle on a particular journey. ‘Shotgun!’ she yelled and tossed the keys to Veronica Example sentencesExamples I watched two men with bulging backpacks descend the stairs and load them into the boot, nearly filling it up. "Shotgun!" one of them said. The second I closed the door, I shouted "Shotgun!" "Shotgun!" Benjamin called as he jumped into the passenger side. "Shotgun!" he shouted, scurrying to the passenger side. Did he yell out "Shotgun" to ride up front with the engineer? adjectiveˈʃɒtɡʌnˈʃɑtˌɡən North American 1Aimed at a wide range of things; having no specific target. many companies use the shotgun approach, aiming advertising at the widest possible audience Example sentencesExamples One other lesson and that is you cannot build or strengthen institutions using a shotgun approach. I am taking the shotgun approach to the insurance question. All companies want to up-sell and cross-sell current customers, but most take a shotgun approach. I love George and wish him well, but the shotgun approach strikes me as counterproductive. Like tiny divining rods, these drugs hunt down only diseased cells, avoiding the shotgun approach of past chemotherapies. 2Denoting a long, narrow single-storey house whose rooms are arranged one behind another. his family lived in a shotgun shack in South Memphis Example sentencesExamples Two years ago the council blocked the demolition of a 100-year-old, uninhabitable shotgun cottage. On the icy road to nowhere, the car flips over the railing and lands near a seemingly abandoned shotgun shack. The following day, after a pilgrimage to Elvis's childhood home (a two roomed shotgun shack in Tupelo) we headed for Fulton, a small town in Northern Mississippi. She uses a "little shotgun shack in a checkered neighborhood in Lexington" as an art and writing studio. Neighbors were attempting to avoid further development in the chronically cramped neighborhood of shotgun cottages. They don't live on the wrong side of the tracks in McIntyre, Ga. Their shotgun shack lies virtually on the railroad tracks. George invited him to stay the night in the family's shotgun shack. Upgrading shotgun shacks to uber-rich steel and glass high-rises is as simple as clicking through a transparent overlay, provided you have the funds. verb ˈʃɒtɡʌnˈʃɑtˌɡən [with object] 1Shoot at or kill with a shotgun. he had been shotgunned by drug dealers Example sentencesExamples One of the star prosecution witnesses had been shotgunned to death. He was shotgunned in the back while lying on the floor of the convenience store where he worked as a clerk. He's the murderer. He shotgunned his wife and her fancy man One came driving at me, so I shotgunned him in the head as he drove past. He acknowledged he shotgunned his parents to death. 2North American informal Consume (a canned drink) in one go by puncturing the can, putting one’s mouth over the resulting hole, and then opening the can by means of the ring pull to produce a rapid flow. a group of us shotgunned beers Example sentencesExamples The video sees the band members going into party mode, shotgunning beers and frolicking around in a swimming pool. We went in the pool, had a water bomb fight, ate pizza, shotgunned cans of fanta and sprite, watched Scary Movie 4 and played some card games. He's signalling to the ref that they are to shotgun the beers! By the end of their day together he has shotgunned a Bud Light and gotten a new tattoo. Eventually I stumbled out of the place, shotgunning a Mountain Dew. It's refreshing to see sommeliers who would be just as comfortable shotgunning beers in a frat house as evaluating high-end Bordeaux at a French chateau. The video follows Shana Cleveland on an introspective winter walk through Index, WA while the rest of the band shotgun beers and drive around in truck beds. Just reading the names together in one sentence made my head start banging furiously and caused me to shotgun a beer. Soon we were on the road, with Mark shotgunning Red Bulls at every stop while sipping them in between. Some of the more common methods of consuming alcohol like taking shots, keg parties, shotgunning cans of beer, binge drinking etc. etc. doesn't seem to be enough for some alcohol consumers. Kelsey and I just shotgunned cans of Pepsi in front of our house in honor of her 21st birthday. Phrases call shotgun informal Claim the right to sit in the front passenger seat of a vehicle on a particular journey. my girlfriend called shotgun, so I sat in the back seat Example sentencesExamples If that politician ever asks to go for a ride, call shotgun. Janet remembers when the rules were simple: windows down and radio up, everyone chipped in for gas and shotgun went to whoever called it first. Adults can fit in the cheap seats way out back, but the tallest ones will want to call shotgun on long trips. Rocky called shotgun so I got in the back. None of your passengers will be calling shotgun, and you might make a habit of letting friends drive, so you can lounge in back. Significant others of the driver or other people related (non-siblings) to the driver need not call shotgun. I call shotgun: Kiri usually claims the best spot at the front of the sidecar, leaving Mari and Hine to perch behind. ride shotgun 1informal Travel as a guard next to the driver of a vehicle. police have begun riding shotgun on buses to protect frightened drivers and passengers Example sentencesExamples One crew came under such sustained abuse that town hall chiefs ordered Neighbourhood Safety officers to ride shotgun on the truck to stop the attacks. Wyatt rode shotgun for Wells Fargo stagecoaches and moonlighted as a gambler. It goes like this: the secret service agents detailed to ride shotgun on the motorcade went out drinking the night before. We need someone to ride shotgun with our first responders-more guns, right? When I rode shotgun for truck drivers, my weapon of choice was a 12-gauge pump-action. 1.1Ride in the front passenger seat of a vehicle. Jacob got in the back seat next to Katie and Jessica rode shotgun Example sentencesExamples I walked away with a minor break to my arm but my brother who was riding shotgun in the front seat required stitches after his head impacted the windshield. They honk to her and the man riding shotgun gets out and lets her into the front passenger seat. The car packed, we left early the next day, me driving and my son riding shotgun with his "Death Jar" containing the now dead (hopefully) spider. Her son, riding shotgun, proudly filmed his mother driving and then posted it on YouTube. One Porsche fan will be given the chance to ride shotgun in the one-off 911 on Britain's Silverstone circuit. Last year, she rode shotgun in a NASCAR vehicle for several laps at a California racetrack. The Corvette has a refined ride quality that will appeal not only to drivers but the lady friends who will inevitably be riding shotgun. To begin with, only lightly used rural or suburban roads will be used, and with a person riding shotgun ready to take over in emergencies. The ride did sit well with the team sponsor and his country's minister of sport, who rode shotgun in the team's car. "It makes the interior feel very open," said Tom, who rode shotgun on a trip to Michigan. If your dog likes to ride shotgun with you in the car, margarine tubs are the perfect utensil for dog food and water to-go. The redhead riding shotgun turned and looked at me with disgust. noun.1 phr. Definition of shotgun in US English: shotgun nounˈʃɑtˌɡənˈSHätˌɡən 1A smoothbore gun for firing small shot at short range. Example sentencesExamples He was captured with an assault rifle, a shotgun, and two pistols. Kimmitt said troops at the scene found a variety of weapons, including shotguns, handguns, rifles and machine guns. Final returns are still being evaluated, but the haul includes hand guns, rifles, shotguns, air guns and imitation firearms. Security guards were robbed at gunpoint by raiders wielding a sawn-off shotgun and a pistol. Two firearms, a shotgun and a rifle, were confiscated at the scene. Spent shotgun cartridges have been recovered from the scene. If you're using a shotgun at short range you'll generally score a hit, but with a handgun at long range you end up wasting ammo more than anything else. Few firearms are as visually intimidating as a double-barreled shotgun. The suspected burglar fled the farm but was later discovered nearby with a minor wound in his leg caused by shotgun pellets. One thug brandishing a shotgun kept watch while the other three, armed with a machete and an iron bar, rushed inside and grabbed hundreds of Rolex, Omega and Cartier watches. With the advent of the self-contained cartridge, repeating rifles, shotguns and handguns replaced single shots. He reloaded his shotgun to fire the second shot. Did anyone check to see if the shotgun was loaded? In the first week of the amnesty, eight weapons were surrendered to Bolton police, including a rifle, a shotgun, three air rifles, two air pistols and an imitation gun. 2North American informal The front passenger seat in a vehicle. Katherine sits in shotgun and gives Maria directions as modifier all the back benches in the shuttle were full when I arrived, so I took the shotgun seat Example sentencesExamples The car's driver and shotgun seats are all manually controlled, which is to be expected in an all electric vehicle. I can only imagine that when Zack takes his friends places, he gets both the driver's seat and shotgun. Juan takes shotgun and is supposed to be in charge of the tunes while making sure I don't get lost. I told him to strap himself in and then slid into the driver's seat as Nana took shotgun. If I was pitching that day, my warmup would generally consist of throwing someone's socks to the shotgun seat from the back. I had a '60 Ford Galaxie back in the 60s that had a rust hole behind the "shotgun" seat. 2.1as exclamation Used to claim the right to sit in the front passenger seat of a vehicle on a particular journey. ‘Shotgun!’ she yelled and tossed the keys to Veronica Example sentencesExamples "Shotgun!" he shouted, scurrying to the passenger side. Did he yell out "Shotgun" to ride up front with the engineer? The second I closed the door, I shouted "Shotgun!" "Shotgun!" Benjamin called as he jumped into the passenger side. I watched two men with bulging backpacks descend the stairs and load them into the boot, nearly filling it up. "Shotgun!" one of them said. 3American Football An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap while standing several yards behind the line of scrimmage. Example sentencesExamples He also believes the shotgun can disrupt a quarterback's rhythm with his receivers. So with seven yards needed for the first down, the offense lined up in a shotgun formation and went for it. In simple terms, it was a shotgun formation with two receivers to each side. Early in the season, Moore struggled with snaps out of the shotgun formation. There are rumblings that some high up in the organization will encourage the new coaching staff to include the shotgun formation in the offense. adjectiveˈʃɑtˌɡənˈSHätˌɡən North American 1Aimed at a wide range of things; having no specific target. many companies use the shotgun approach, aiming advertising at the widest possible audience Example sentencesExamples I love George and wish him well, but the shotgun approach strikes me as counterproductive. I am taking the shotgun approach to the insurance question. Like tiny divining rods, these drugs hunt down only diseased cells, avoiding the shotgun approach of past chemotherapies. All companies want to up-sell and cross-sell current customers, but most take a shotgun approach. One other lesson and that is you cannot build or strengthen institutions using a shotgun approach. 2Denoting a long, narrow single-story house whose rooms are arranged one behind another. his family lived in a shotgun shack in South Memphis Example sentencesExamples George invited him to stay the night in the family's shotgun shack. Two years ago the council blocked the demolition of a 100-year-old, uninhabitable shotgun cottage. Neighbors were attempting to avoid further development in the chronically cramped neighborhood of shotgun cottages. They don't live on the wrong side of the tracks in McIntyre, Ga. Their shotgun shack lies virtually on the railroad tracks. On the icy road to nowhere, the car flips over the railing and lands near a seemingly abandoned shotgun shack. Upgrading shotgun shacks to uber-rich steel and glass high-rises is as simple as clicking through a transparent overlay, provided you have the funds. The following day, after a pilgrimage to Elvis's childhood home (a two roomed shotgun shack in Tupelo) we headed for Fulton, a small town in Northern Mississippi. She uses a "little shotgun shack in a checkered neighborhood in Lexington" as an art and writing studio. verbˈʃɑtˌɡənˈSHätˌɡən [with object] 1Shoot at or kill with a shotgun. he had been shotgunned by drug dealers Example sentencesExamples He acknowledged he shotgunned his parents to death. One of the star prosecution witnesses had been shotgunned to death. One came driving at me, so I shotgunned him in the head as he drove past. He's the murderer. He shotgunned his wife and her fancy man He was shotgunned in the back while lying on the floor of the convenience store where he worked as a clerk. 2North American informal Consume (a canned drink) in one go by puncturing the can, putting one’s mouth over the resulting hole, and then opening the can by means of the ring pull to produce a rapid flow. shotgunning beers Example sentencesExamples The video follows Shana Cleveland on an introspective winter walk through Index, WA while the rest of the band shotgun beers and drive around in truck beds. Some of the more common methods of consuming alcohol like taking shots, keg parties, shotgunning cans of beer, binge drinking etc. etc. doesn't seem to be enough for some alcohol consumers. Soon we were on the road, with Mark shotgunning Red Bulls at every stop while sipping them in between. Just reading the names together in one sentence made my head start banging furiously and caused me to shotgun a beer. Eventually I stumbled out of the place, shotgunning a Mountain Dew. We went in the pool, had a water bomb fight, ate pizza, shotgunned cans of fanta and sprite, watched Scary Movie 4 and played some card games. By the end of their day together he has shotgunned a Bud Light and gotten a new tattoo. It's refreshing to see sommeliers who would be just as comfortable shotgunning beers in a frat house as evaluating high-end Bordeaux at a French chateau. The video sees the band members going into party mode, shotgunning beers and frolicking around in a swimming pool. Kelsey and I just shotgunned cans of Pepsi in front of our house in honor of her 21st birthday. He's signalling to the ref that they are to shotgun the beers! Phrases call shotgun informal Claim the right to sit in the front passenger seat of a vehicle on a particular journey. my girlfriend called shotgun, so I sat in the back seat Example sentencesExamples Significant others of the driver or other people related (non-siblings) to the driver need not call shotgun. None of your passengers will be calling shotgun, and you might make a habit of letting friends drive, so you can lounge in back. If that politician ever asks to go for a ride, call shotgun. I call shotgun: Kiri usually claims the best spot at the front of the sidecar, leaving Mari and Hine to perch behind. Rocky called shotgun so I got in the back. Janet remembers when the rules were simple: windows down and radio up, everyone chipped in for gas and shotgun went to whoever called it first. Adults can fit in the cheap seats way out back, but the tallest ones will want to call shotgun on long trips. ride shotgun 1informal Travel as a guard in the seat next to the driver of a vehicle. police armed with automatic rifles ride shotgun on the trucks Example sentencesExamples We need someone to ride shotgun with our first responders-more guns, right? Wyatt rode shotgun for Wells Fargo stagecoaches and moonlighted as a gambler. One crew came under such sustained abuse that town hall chiefs ordered Neighbourhood Safety officers to ride shotgun on the truck to stop the attacks. It goes like this: the secret service agents detailed to ride shotgun on the motorcade went out drinking the night before. When I rode shotgun for truck drivers, my weapon of choice was a 12-gauge pump-action. 1.1Ride in the front passenger seat of a vehicle. Jacob got in the back seat next to Katie and Jessica rode shotgun Example sentencesExamples The ride did sit well with the team sponsor and his country's minister of sport, who rode shotgun in the team's car. Last year, she rode shotgun in a NASCAR vehicle for several laps at a California racetrack. If your dog likes to ride shotgun with you in the car, margarine tubs are the perfect utensil for dog food and water to-go. I walked away with a minor break to my arm but my brother who was riding shotgun in the front seat required stitches after his head impacted the windshield. Her son, riding shotgun, proudly filmed his mother driving and then posted it on YouTube. One Porsche fan will be given the chance to ride shotgun in the one-off 911 on Britain's Silverstone circuit. The Corvette has a refined ride quality that will appeal not only to drivers but the lady friends who will inevitably be riding shotgun. The car packed, we left early the next day, me driving and my son riding shotgun with his "Death Jar" containing the now dead (hopefully) spider. They honk to her and the man riding shotgun gets out and lets her into the front passenger seat. To begin with, only lightly used rural or suburban roads will be used, and with a person riding shotgun ready to take over in emergencies. "It makes the interior feel very open," said Tom, who rode shotgun on a trip to Michigan. The redhead riding shotgun turned and looked at me with disgust. noun.1 phr.
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