scattergun
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈskætərˌɡʌn/
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escopeta
- After a long day of hunting, he stored his scattergun safely in the truck.
Examples
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They wait in rural fields for a victim from the future to materialize in front of them—on schedule, bound, and helpless—and then blow him away with their scatterguns.
Blog text (3) -
I reckon' Clyde used a ten-gauge scattergun.
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I used to be fair with a scattergun... ...but then that was when the bird wasn't too far away or flying too fast.
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Maybe a couple of old scatterguns?
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He held his scattergun at his side, walking deliberately, head rotating.
Fiction book (1992) -
Give me that scattergun.
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Well, we got a knife wound, we got a large caliber bullet, probably a 45, and a scattergun, which leads me to believe that this was the work of at least two killers.
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M4 Benelli scattergun.
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He drove with one hand, his calloused right fist closing around the double-barrelled scattergun he carried beside him and thumbing back the hammers.
Fiction book (1992) -
He raised the scattergun to his shoulder and took aim at the approaching birds.
Synonyms
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1.0
A weapon that fires bullets or shells at high speed
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4.1
A gun fired from the shoulder that shoots many small pellets
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9.9
A slang word for a shotgun
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9.9
A light shotgun used for shooting wild birds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scattergun comes from scatter ('to spread') and gun ('firearm'). It named a kind of shotgun that fires many small pellets which spread out at short range, so the name simply describes how the weapon scatters its shot.