shotgun

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


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