Phrase Hound found 39 phrases and 4 compound words that contain shotgun. The most common are listed below. Open shotgun in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 39
- shotgun weddingA wedding in which the bride is already pregnant.
- ride shotgunTo accompany the driver of a vehicle on a journey as an armed escort (originally with a shotgun); (by extension) to accompany someone in order to assist and protect.
- double-barrelled shotgunA type of shot-firing gun with two long, parallel barrels, allowing the user to fire twice in quick succession.
- sawn-off shotgunA shotgun whose barrel(s) has been shortened for ease of concealment and to give a larger spread, though with more limited range (often for illegal purposes).
- shotgun startA tournament format in which all groups of contestants tee off simultaneously from different holes.
- shotgun sequencingA DNA sequencing technique in which a large number of small fragments of a long DNA strand are generated at random, sequenced, and reassembled to form a sequence of the original strand.
- shotgun shackSynonym of shotgun house: A narrow shack with a door at each end, common in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1920s.
- shotgun marriageA marriage beginning with (or resulting from) a shotgun wedding.
- shotgun houseA narrow shack with a door at each end, common in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1920s.
- shotgun microphoneA highly directional microphone for capturing only the sound directly in front of it, often used at a distance.
- shotgun proteomicsA laboratory method for the determining the identities of proteins in a mixture.
- riding shotgunpresent participle and gerund of ride shotgun
- shotgun cloningSynonym of shotgun sequencing: A DNA sequencing technique in which a large number of small fragments of a long DNA strand are generated at random, sequenced, and reassembled to form a sequence of the original strand.
- shotgun debuggingA poorly-directed form of debugging, making various experimental changes to the source code in the hope that one of them will eventually fix the problem.
- shotgun housesplural of shotgun house: A narrow shack with a door at each end, common in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1920s.
- shotgun micA shotgun microphone.
- shotgun offenseAn offense in which the quarterback sets up at a distance behind the center and the ball is snapped through the air.
- shotgun surgeryThe antipattern of adding similar or identical source code in multiple parts of a software project, rather than implementing the desired functionality in a single place to make it reusable.
- pump-action shotgunA shotgun with a pump action for loading.
- shotgun shacksplural of shotgun shack: A narrow shack with a door at each end, common in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1920s.
- sawed-off shotgunAlternative form of sawn-off shotgun: A shotgun whose barrel(s) has been shortened for ease of concealment and to give a larger spread, though with more limited range (often for illegal purposes).
- double-barreled shotgunAlternative spelling of double-barrelled shotgun: A type of shot-firing gun with two long, parallel barrels, allowing the user to fire twice in quick succession.
- shotgun approachAn approach in which the subject is indiscriminate and haphazard, using breadth, spread, or quantity in lieu of accuracy, planning, etc.
- shotgun doubleTwo shotgun houses which share a central wall.
- rides shotgunthird-person singular simple present indicative of ride shotgun: To accompany the driver of a vehicle on a journey as an armed escort (originally with a shotgun); (by extension) to accompany someone in order to assist and protect.
Compound words 4
- shotgunlikeResembling or characteristic of a shotgun.
- shotgunnerSomeone who uses a shotgun
- shotgunnedsimple past and past participle of shotgun
- shotgunningpresent participle and gerund of shotgun