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shotgun, v. colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|ˈʃɒtgʌn|
[f. shot-gun n.]
1. trans. To shoot with a shotgun. (In quot. a 1880 with cognate obj. to shotgun one's way.)
a1880in G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited I. vi. 87 Our people sabred and shot-gunned their way to liberty. a1961in Webster s.v., An enemy who shotgunned him from ambush. 1977Washington Post 30 Oct. f6/2, I didn't have to worry about some beer-sodden cowboy shotgunning me right through my sleeping bag. 1978S. Brill Teamsters i. 23 One of the star prosecution witnesses had been shotgunned to death. 1981J. Wainwright All on Summer's Day 143 He's the murderer. He shotgunned his wife and her fancy man. 1988Modern Painters Autumn 64/2 The..cheesecake..is..the perfect antithesis to a backdrop of plywood canvases shotgunned and spraycanned out in the heart of the country.
2. To force as if with a shotgun; to bring about forcibly.
a1961A. Roth in Webster s.v., Shotgunned western Europe into federal unity. 1978Nat. Westm. Bank Q. Rev. Nov. 10 No matter how dubious their case, domestic forces can affect trade policy, at least at the margin, by ‘shotgunning’ their import complaints through the expanding number of statutory procedures now available to them. 1982Fortune 22 Mar. 121/1, I shotgunned a marriage of the two firms to design the project. It lasted about two months. They lacked rapport.
Hence ˈshotgunned ppl. a.; ˈshotˌgunner n.; ˈshotˌgunning vbl. n.
1975Victorian (Victoria, B.C.) 24 Sept. 16/1 Shotgunners after wildfowl are unaffected by the ban. 1978Business Week 5 June 116f/2 To avoid lawsuits and government fines..they [sc. chemical producers]..are trying to forestall safety and environmental hazards. Legal shotgunning. The threat of litigation alone is ample incentive. 1981Washington Post 2 July b13/1 Members of a motorcycle gang weighted a shotgunned body with cinderblocks and tossed it into the quarry. 1988Oxf. Mail 11 Nov. 1/2 PC Shaw said he was selected as the shotgunner who was to fire if Davies made a threatening move. |