gunner
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈɡʌnər/
:
artillero (militar)
- During the training exercise, the experienced gunner expertly operated the machine gun.
- machine gunner
I remember when I first engaged, he was lead turret gunner and same dude Zadok.
- I remember when I first engaged, he was lead turret gunner and same dude Zadok.
- He was one of my guys first SEAL killed in Iraq and he was the lead turret gunner in the lead Humvee.
- And but none of us wanted to be a machine gunner or an anti tank gunner.
- He was assigned to become a tail gunner and in the bomber that that he was in and bomber crews are very tight and close knit.
- And they gave him an anti aircraft gunner job, which apparently was that era's version of like a high tech job because he was so smart.
- We're all infantrymen, machine Gunners, riflemen, mortarmen.
- So my my grandfather on the on the other side, he was a machine gunner that was in Ukraine.
- My grandfather spilled his blood on this land, held the line as a machine gunner against the Nazi invasion, surviving impossible odds.
- But there was one particular gunner in my class.
- They have call signs, their striker, sand dune gunner.
Examples
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As the range closes, the French and Spanish Gunners begin to land more and more shots on target.
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The gunners have just left their posts.
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But there was one particular gunner in my class.
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Yeah, I know, lead gunner with you as always.
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Jack was a machine gunner on helicopters for a long time.
Fiction book (1993) -
Each boat has two men, a gunner and a pilot, both of whom are also mechanics.
Fiction book (2002) -
For Thomas Dean Pierce, the gunner, this was the puzzle.
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He was a gunner in a chopper that got shot down.
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On the other side of Bracey, there is a new gunner, Alexander Cruz.
Fiction book (1998) -
He was one of my guys first SEAL killed in Iraq and he was the lead turret gunner in the lead Humvee.
Synonyms
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3.6
A person who fires a gun, sometimes paid to kill others
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5.2
A person who can hit targets very accurately with a gun or in sport
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5.9
A person who shoots very accurately with a gun
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8.2
A person who is very good at using guns and hitting targets
A person who shoots very well, often in the army or competitions
A person who is very skilled at using weapons in combat
Compounds
How Skilled
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6.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gunner comes from the simple word gun and the ending -er. One popular story says early big guns were even given a woman's name, but the easiest way to remember is that -er makes a word mean 'one who', so a gunner is 'one who' uses or operates a gun.