单词 | pop-gun |
释义 | pop-gunv. transitive. To shoot a popgun at; to shoot at as if with a popgun. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > use or operation of small arms > use small arms [verb (transitive)] > fire pop-gun at pop-gun1721 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius No. 51. 2/1 Those abominable Monsters [sc. whales]..pop-gun with their huge Trunks the poor Constellations, and turn the milky Way into a Salt-Posset. 1857 W. M. Thackeray Let. 8 Feb. in J. G. Wilson Thackeray in United States (1904) I. 337 The critic popgunning away at some other mark. 1971 A. Sexton Compl. Poems (1981) 603 We all go in the bushes and peek at each other's sex. Pop-gunning the street lights like crows. 1998 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 1 June d7 Sunday's game was Exhibit A as the streaking Guns pop-gunned the Grizzlies to death, with 12 hits. Derivatives ˈpopgunning adj. and n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > use or operation of small arms > [adjective] > discharging pop-gun popgunning1846 1846 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 273 Loads of popgunning blackguards. 1851 E. S. Wortley Trav. in U.S. II. iii. 56 It is described as an amusing little divertissement enough, and the pop-gunning and cannonading must have a lively and festive effect. 1914 Washington Post 7 June 2/2 If a man does give us mortal offense..by smoking our pet pipe or walking on a cherished corn, no aerial pop-gunning is going to be of any use. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1721 |
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