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   shotgun

   /ˈʃɒtɡʌn/

   noun

   • 1. a smooth-bore gun for firing small shot at short range.
   • 2. the front passenger seat in a vehicle: informal North American "I took the shotgun seat"
   • ▪ 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"

   adjective

   • 1. aimed at a wide range of things; having no specific target: "many companies use the shotgun approach, aiming advertising at the widest possible audience"
   • 2. denoting a long, narrow single-storey house whose rooms are arranged one behind another: "his family lived in a shotgun shack in South Memphis"

   verb

   • 1. shoot at or kill with a shotgun: "he had been shotgunned by drug dealers"
   • 2. 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: informal North American "a group of us shotgunned beers"

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