Definition of Shotgun

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Definition of Shotgun
	Shotgun A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game. Related Definitions: And, At, Designed, Double-Barreled, Especially, Firing, For, Game, Gun, Killing, Light, Often, Range, Short, Shot, Small

Shotgun Quotations

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
Truman Capote

To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.
Tom Selleck

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
Terry Prachett

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
Dashiell Hammett

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
Roger Tory Peterson

Shotgun Translations

shotgun in German is Schrotflinte
shotgun in Norwegian is hagle

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