gun-mangunmann.
/ˈɡʌnmən/, /ˈɡʌnman/, U.S. /ˈɡənmən/ 1. One who is armed with a gun; one who shoots with a gun. (Formerly applied esp. to North American Indian warriors.) Also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm
shot1598
gun-man1624
popper1733
gunsman1766
firer1807
pluffer1828
gun1931
gunsel1942
gun-slinger1953
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > terrorism > terrorist
terrorist1806
terrorizer1867
soshi1891
gun-man1903
mau-mauer1974
1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 62 A gun-man (it may be) today, and a pike-man to morrow.
1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. II. 530 Gun-men of great ability and no common virtue.
1761 Descr. S. Carolina 60 The Cherokees..have about Three Thousand Gun-Men.
1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 388 It is said they are able to muster five hundred gun-men or warriors.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 May 6 H...is not only a penman, but a gunman, a rodman, and a horseman.
1903 N.Y. Sun 23 Nov. 1 A notorious outlaw and one of the most expert gun men of the West.
1913 Industrial Worker (Spokane, Washington) 3 July Last evening one of the gunmen of the A.C.M. Co. came to the jail and tried to get a blacksmith out of here.
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 15 Oct. 4/7 The gunman who yesterday was foiled in his attempt to rob the Bank of Hamilton, robbed the Union Bank today.
1931 Star 8 May 6/2 Lord Hailsham is rapidly making a name for himself in the House of Lords as a gunman of debate.
1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night xiv. 277 He seems to regard him as a kind of gunman-messiah.
1972 Daily Tel. 13 Jan. 1 The Army said five IRA gunmen were shot and injured during the two-and-a-half-hour battle.
2. One who has to do with guns or is engaged in their manufacture.
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1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 270 The strikes of the gunmen in Birmingham during the Crimean War.
Derivatives
ˈgunmanship n. the status, performance, or practice of a gunman.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > skill in
marksmanship1803
gun-play1897
gunmanship1925
1925 L. O'Flaherty Informer vi. 78 We can imagine him perfecting himself in the arts of gunmanship.
1959 I. Jefferies Thirteen Days ii. 29 We would practice academic gunmanship... The idea was to jerk the gun and fire it off like a rattle.
1965 Economist 20 Feb. 791/1 Just how serious was London's recent outbreak of criminal gun~manship?
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