GUN

Meaning of GUN in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a gun permit

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More than 300,000 civilians, in a country of 6 million, have gun permits.

a knife/gun attack

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He was sentenced to nine years in prison for the knife attack.

BB gun

big gun

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one of the party’s big guns

fire a gun/weapon/rifle etc (= make it shoot )

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the sound of a gun being fired

gun carriage

gun control

gun dog

machine gun

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There came the sound of men shouting and a burst of machine gun fire.

pull a gun/knife (on sb) (= take one out, ready to use it )

radar gun

shoot a gun/rifle etc

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Tod’s grandfather taught him to shoot a rifle.

smoking gun

son of a gun

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Duke, you old son of a gun, how are you?

spray gun

squirt gun

staple gun

Sten gun

stun gun

submachine gun

tommy gun

toy car/soldier/gun etc

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

big

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The explosion from the big old-fashioned gun was deafening.

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The side with the most men and the biggest guns will inevitably wear down its opponent.

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The big guy with the big gun strafed the place.

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They leaned into their big guns , shoulders twitching.

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He won't be the last big gun brought out in the battle for Stockton South.

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In Houston, many of the big gun shops have opted to police themselves.

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Did you hear the big gun firing, from the prison-ships?

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There was a tank with a big gun on it.

heavy

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To demolish enemy fortifications, heavy guns had also been developed.

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Beyond them a phalanx of armored personnel carriers was lined up three abreast, their heavy guns pointed toward our bank.

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Nearby are pillboxes designed to accommodate heavy machine guns .

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Within minutes, the platoon was being pummeled by heavy machine gun and rifle fire.

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Then he stopped the heavy machine guns blasting away non-stop.

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They held for seconds, their gasping suddenly drowned by heavy machine gun fire ending with a scream from somewhere close by.

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A new regiment of Saxons made its appearance, only to be massacred by its own heavy guns .

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I had some physiotherapy and we replaced the heavy gun I fired on stage with a lighter model.

toy

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But if you buy your child a toy gun will it turn him into an aggressive adult?

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I hope you didn't pay too much for the toy gun .

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She had pulled a stocking over her head and threatened a cashier with a toy cowboy gun .

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Kaptan was wearing a plastic G I'S helmet and putting a roll of caps into a toy gun .

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It like a toy cowboy gun to Chris.

■ NOUN

barrel

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The menace of those long gun barrels was sobering.

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The four desperadoes took off after us, running up the road as their gun barrels glinted in the light.

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All he was aware of was the deathly cold of the gun barrel .

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It appeared Mr Prescott then put the gun barrel in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

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From part of this twelve gun barrels were forged and sent to Enfield, but they did not show the desired improvement.

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She obeyed instinctively, the coldness of the gun barrel chilling her skin.

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The shattered side window was punched through and a gun barrel appeared.

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A typewriter was as individual as a fingerprint, or a set of teeth, or a gun barrel scoring a bullet.

battle

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Seven police officers were injured in a gun battle .

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But none of that happened without running gun battles with the centralizers in Washington.

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On April 28 eight people died and more than 20 were injured in a gun battle in the village of Troitskaya.

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After 10 days of gun battles , Federal troops were called out to quell the violence.

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In the gun battle that followed all the rebels were shot dead except one-17-year-old Bhagwati Chaudhary.

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His parents were told at first that he was hit in the chest during a gun battle .

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Khosana was shot dead in an ensuing gun battle with Ciskeian troops.

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Last Sunday 22 people died and 52 were injured in gun battles and by landmines in the state.

control

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Its opponents included liberals who were opposed to the death penalty and conservatives who objected to the gun control provisions.

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The obstinate refusal of many males to support gun control is not chiefly a product of conditioning by the weapons industry.

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We have an attorney general who was a leading opponent of gun control in the Senate.

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The demand for tighter gun control is especially widespread and intense among women.

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The law was sent for approval to Governor George Deukmejian, a former outspoken opponent of gun control .

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He would outlaw abortion and end gun control .

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She also would press for tougher gun control measures, such as licensing all new handgun owners.

machine

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They started to use machine guns against the crowd on the Cathedral steps, people were collapsing wounded all about me.

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You had a. 50-caliber machine gun and an M60 mounted on the rear of the vehicle to cover your rear.

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A light machine gun opened up, then another.

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The hammering of the machine guns and rifles around him was continuous.

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Wounded men all round him tried to get up and retreat, but only brought eruptions of machine gun fire.

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A small army of men toting machine guns stood at the gate, which slowly swung open in front of us.

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I had hit the floor before the machine gun went off.

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They were complemented by light machine guns that could be handled by a sin-gle soldier in a pinch.

submachine

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Four soldiers with submachine guns patrolled the room, and an officer made his rounds at frequent intervals.

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Out of the darkness stepped four men with AK-47 assault rifles and Uzi submachine guns , Anaya said.

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One of them tugged the camel reins away from Kate and she found herself looking into the muzzle of a submachine gun .

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His hand went out, reached for the submachine gun , his fingers tightening on the stock.

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He wore his skullcap, his hiking boots, his pistol-and had his Uzi submachine gun strapped across his back.

■ VERB

carry

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Look, I carry a gun .

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He was not carrying a gun .

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Osborn was known by his friends to carry a gun in his car.

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If I'd been carrying my gun I'd have pulled it.

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A jeep carrying two soldiers holding guns followed us for several miles, then turned back.

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But Edward, delighted to be carrying a gun at last, hardly cared.

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By the time a decision comes down, six months later, the students are carrying mobile phones-if not guns .

draw

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She could have drawn her gun , walked up to them all, and killed them all quickly.

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Let me ask you something: Who did he draw his gun ?

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The french windows were closed and he drew his gun and peered in to the gloomy apartment.

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Rubenski, one of our most accurate gunners, opened up as we drew closer to the gun position.

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Horses drawing guns slithered helplessly on the icy road, ambulances full of wounded skidded into ditches.

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Both had been presidential bodyguards with the Reagan administration but neither of them had ever had to draw his gun in anger.

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He threw the strip down then drew his gun .

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The court heard that Newton had snapped in the mistaken belief that his father was about to draw a gun on him.

hire

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The most free-spending hired guns are all well-known by political mavens inside the Beltway.

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This time Bruce Willis is the hired gun in Prohibition-era Texas.

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This time Bruce Willis is the hired gun , caught between Chicago gangsters fighting for control of the hooch business.

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Her coming was more like bringing in a hired gun .

hold

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The boy holding a gun too, but pointing it at the floor, uncertain what to do.

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He stood up, holding the guns .

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He held his gun near his mouth and touched it gently with his lips as he waited.

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Buff's face was full of hate and he was holding a laser gun .

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A jeep carrying two soldiers holding guns followed us for several miles, then turned back.

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Duvall was holding the gun now as he looked down at him, breathing heavily.

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You think it makes a man of you, holding a gun .

jump

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The owners are constantly carping about runaway salaries, then fall over themselves to jump the gun and up the ante.

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Although some winter barley growers jumped he gun last week, little was cut as crops were not fit.

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Suppose some broker was able to anticipate the radio sign from Chicago, then he could jump the gun .

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But we are jumping the gun here.

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Aren't we jumping the gun a bit?

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The new squad will officially be in existence on Monday anyway, so we're only jumping the gun by six days.

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But I have jumped the gun .

keep

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She must have got it from the room where I keep my guns .

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He kept a gun in his desk drawer at the office and one night I took it out and shot him.

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He kept the gun pointed at Connelly's head the entire time, the barrel never more than inches from his face.

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Big Dumbo would keep his gun on me, I would watch his hand.

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To this end, he had taught his deputies that keeping their guns cleaned and oiled meant never having to use them.

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But it keeps the gun shops happy.

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So what, that one of their neighbors kept a gun ?

point

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They looked at the passports and then started to walk down the aisle, pointing their guns at the passengers.

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Deering, whom Warren Cokley knew, entered pointing a gun at him.

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He snapped off a shot, hardly even bothering to point the gun before he squeezed the trigger.

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If Jack let his men point a gun at his own club, what other club could be safe?

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Two men in their late teens or early twenties came into the office and pointed their guns at the cashiers face.

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I turned around and saw a man pointing a gun at me.

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Facing that wall was a picture of a huge hand pointing a gun directly at you.

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I can close my eyes and point the gun and hit whatever it is.

pull

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But he ducks, wrenches at my fingers, and pulls his gun hand free.

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Then, slowly pulling my own gun away from his head, I continued walking until I was directly opposite him.

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She said that, as the officer felt threatened, he pulled his gun and fired off a warning shot.

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He pulled out a huge gun , snugged inside a light tan shoulder holster.

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It's not every day a young woman pulls a gun on a burglar.

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Confronting two young men outside a Vista apartment building, 18-year-old Lane pulled a gun .

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We featured dramatic pictures of two of the masked boys pulling a replica gun on our front and centre pages.

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Many horses died of starvation, and most of those that survived grew too weak for use in pulling the lightest guns .

shoot

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When you shoot the repeater hand gun work out the first shot normally with a strength of 4.

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He let her shoot his gun from the hip.

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The dawn raids happened less than a day after a Detective Sergeant was shot with a machine gun in Kent.

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We were just firing in the dark too much, just shooting off our guns .

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The villagers then shoot guns into the branches to ward off evil spirits.

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She shoots guns , rides horses and even saves a certain some one from a hanging.

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The electrons are shot from a gun aimed at the centre of the phosphor screen.

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You know how to shoot a gun , she said.

smoke

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Federal agents and prosecutors said they found what amounts to a smoking gun in the case.

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As smoking guns go, Rick Massey is a fizzle.

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The Internal Revenue Service thought it had a smoking gun .

spike

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So she had concocted this marvellous plan to spike Jenny's guns .

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Federalism has spiked the guns of would-be autonomy-seekers.

stick

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He told her that being firm, sticking to one's guns in situations of this kind, always paid off.

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But Klein stuck to his guns .

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The two brothers had conversation after conversation on the theme of religion, the younger one sticking to his guns .

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And there was great admiration for Livingstone's transparent honesty, self-effacing modesty and determination to stick to his guns .

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Spenser should have stuck to his guns and been satisfied with unity of design.

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Whether I'd stuck to my guns or not, it had been a harrowing experience and I felt abused.

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The clubs should have stuck to their guns .

turn

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Wait till we turn the guns on them all.

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I turned some guns , some explosives.

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The man in the room withdrew his arm and shook it free of slivers before turning the gun around ready for use.

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Rohmer was not going to turn a gun on him again, and he was not going to allow this to happen.

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Delaney turned the already hosing gun on to the nearest.

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He turns to get his gun out.

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First nominate your target and turn the gun to face it as you would a cannon.

use

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They started to use machine guns against the crowd on the Cathedral steps, people were collapsing wounded all about me.

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Only use a gun with an adult. 6.

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The six-person jury unanimously found that Lozano had improperly used his gun .

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Roughly half of child killers used a gun , while 16 percent used their own hands and feet as lethal weapons.

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They like to use an elephant gun to stun a flea.

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I can teach you to use a gun and to knife-fight.

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Harris, who was driving a Peugeot 309, was caught by police using a radar gun .

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Unfortunately, the child in the story uses a toy gun to rid himself of the beast.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be going great guns

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It is going great guns with special lines, the Fortress Alarm and the upgraded, fancy number, the Citadel.

jump the gun

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I think it would be jumping the gun to sign the agreement at this stage.

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Miller is young, and comparing him to the great quarterbacks is jumping the gun.

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Surely it's jumping the gun to buy the ring before you've even asked her to marry you?

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Aren't we jumping the gun a bit?

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But I have jumped the gun.

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But we are jumping the gun here.

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It is unlikely that Boris Yeltsin would be implementing those reforms if we had jumped the gun, as the Opposition wanted.

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Suppose some broker was able to anticipate the radio sign from Chicago, then he could jump the gun.

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The new squad will officially be in existence on Monday anyway, so we're only jumping the gun by six days.

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The owners are constantly carping about runaway salaries, then fall over themselves to jump the gun and up the ante.

pack a gun

run drugs/guns

son of a gun!

spike sb's guns

stick to your guns

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And there was great admiration for Livingstone's transparent honesty, self-effacing modesty and determination to stick to his guns.

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But Klein stuck to his guns.

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I can decide how I am going to act, stick to my guns, and ignore the consequences.

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Spenser should have stuck to his guns and been satisfied with unity of design.

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The clubs should have stuck to their guns.

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The two brothers had conversation after conversation on the theme of religion, the younger one sticking to his guns.

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Whether I'd stuck to my guns or not, it had been a harrowing experience and I felt abused.

young gun/Turk

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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A light machine gun opened up, then another.

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Either the machine gun had been wiped out or the enemy had gotten smart.

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He held the gun as if he didn't know what it was, and looked at her.

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His bulging eyes fixing her maniacally as he advanced, his hand on the gun at his belt.

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In letters written from jail, he denies using a gun in the robbery.

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Police said Stanton was hit on the back of the head with a gun during the ordeal.

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