signe de commencement

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{n} gun
A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity. JP 1-02
To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone

He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.

Any weapon that launches a projectile from a tube, even if it is not a firearm, e.g., air-pressure pellet gun, air rifle, BB gun; or, a home-made firearm such as a potato gun
Any device or tool that projects a substance in a superficially similar fashion to a firearm, e.g., nail gun, squirt gun, spray gun, grease gun
A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower)

2000: by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii gun was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore. — Drew Kampion at surfline.com.

To be very good or the best at something

Daniel is gun at basketball.

{n} a cannon, musket a great flagon or pot
Any weapon that launches a projectile from a tube, even if it is not a firearm, e.g., potato gun, air-pressure pellet gun
large but transportable armament
  1 Individual designated as an official gunner at an event   2   Firearm handler swings and fires (blanks) in seasoned and finished tests   
Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc
A cannon with tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar. JP 1-02
The device that dispenses a material (adhesive) onto a substrate or product
If you jump the gun, you do something before everyone else or before the proper or right time. It wasn't due to be released until September 10, but some booksellers have jumped the gun and decided to sell it early
an outfielder's outstanding throwing arm
shoot with a gun
See these terms in the Vocabulary
{f} shoot, fire; dramatically increase the speed of, accelerate rapidly
Matrix's name for his gun; it functions with Matrix's cybernetic eye RB: 3 H
A cannon designed to throw a projectile a long distance with a flat trajectory
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