You can mark you interesting snippets of text that will be available through a unique link in your browser.


shotgun

Translation
shotgun
1. noun
a) A gun which fires loads consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.

I call shotgun! (I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.)

b) 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.

Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.

2. verb
a) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.

I got a day off because I shotgunned it.

b) To verbally lay claim to (something)
a) Of or relating to a shotgun.

The ground was littered with shotgun shells.

b) Occurring as a result of the threat of force.

a shotgun wedding


Wikipedia foundation.

  
Share  

Look at other dictionaries:

  • shotgun — 1> воен. дробовик, дробовое ружье 2> воен. ам. пулемет Id: shotgun marriage вынужденная женитьба; брак поневоле, чтобы покрыть грех ; вынужденный союз Id: the coalition government was obviously a shotgun marriage коалиционное правительство явно… …   Новый большой англо-русский словарь

  • Shotgun — Shot gun , n. A light, smooth bored gun, often double barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • shotgun — index gun Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Shotgun — For other uses, see Shotgun (disambiguation). A pump action Remington 870, two semi automatic …   Wikipedia

  • shotgun — /shot gun /, n., adj., v., shotgunned, shotgunning. n. 1. a smoothbore gun for firing small shot to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals. 2. Football. an offensive formation, designed primarily… …   Universalium

  • shotgun — ˈʃɔtɡʌn механизированное приспособление для развинчивания труб (военное) дробовик, дробовое ружье (военное) (американизм) пулемет > * marriage вынужденная женитьба; брак …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

  • Shotgun! — 1) Общая лексика: Я занято на переднем! (VERB to (call) shotgun derived from American Western/cowboy (films) where a person acting as security guard would ride shotgun ie: ride in the passenger seat next to the driver whi) 2) Разговорное… …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

  • shotgun — [ ʃɒtgʌn] 1) Общая лексика: дробовик, дробовое ружьё, вынужденный, беспорядочный, бессистемный, не прицельный, с широким охватом 2) Компьютерная техника: (connections) связывать/спаривать соединения в одно (напр.: широкополосное с модемным или… …   Универсальный англо-русский словарь

  • shotgun — I. noun Date: 1776 1. a smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges 2. an offensive football formation in which the quarterback plays a few yards behind the line of scrimmage and the other backs are scattered as flankers or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Shotgun — Der Begriff Shotgun (von engl. shotgun = Schrotflinte) bezeichnet: eine Flinte eine molekularbiologische Methode zur Entschlüsselung von Genomen, siehe Shotgun Sequencing einen Haustyp, der vor allem im Süden der USA verbreitet ist, siehe Shotgun …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Фильмы