SHOTGUNS — Definition of SHOTGUNS
noun
1
A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
Meat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun.
2
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.
I call shotgun! (I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.)
3
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.
4
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.
verb
1
(smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
2
To verbally lay claim to (something)
I got a day off because I shotgunned it.
3
To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
4
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.
📚 Source: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shotgun
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