shotgunshot‧gun /ˈʃɒtɡʌn $ ˈʃɑːt-/ noun [countable] 
The robbers were armed with sawn-off shotguns (=ones that have been made shorter, so the balls go in different directions).
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Agents can also check out 12-gauge Remington shotguns.
- But the thug pulled out a shotgun, ordered the officer to lie on the ground and jumped into the car.
- My first reaction was to scan the angry opposition mob for shotguns, pistols, slingshots, and M-80s.
- One thing that might help George is the shotgun formation.
- Rory fell on to his side; the shotgun roared and the rear of the couch blew open in a dusty horsehair explosion.
- The arsonists also buried 32 shotgun cartridges in the pitch.
- Wallace finally deployed state troopers, who used shotguns and indiscriminate beating to suppress the blacks.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The robbers were armed with sawn-off shotguns (=ones that have been made shorter, so the balls go in different directions).COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES A bomb blast completely destroyed the building.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
a long gun fired from the shoulder, that shoots many small round balls at one time, used especially for killing birds or animals: The robbers were armed with sawn-off shotguns (=ones that have been made shorter, so the balls go in different directions). A bomb blast completely destroyed the building.· The cause of death was a shotgun blast at close range, and police are now investigating the illegal killing.· They frequently shifted and broke apart under the warming sun, sounding like thunder, booming cannonades and shotgun blasts.· He was killed by a shotgun blast while supposedly resisting arrest.
VERB· Five raiders armed with sawn-off shotguns, rifles and machetes stole more than £10,000 from Dry, part of the Factory empire.· Read in studio A masked robber armed with a shotgun has held up a newsagent's shop.· The court heard there were four men in the gang, all wearing balaclava helmets and armed with two sawn-off shotguns.· He was armed with a shotgun but no shots were fired.
· But at Stillington a shot was fired from a 12-bore shotgun.· Reynolds said a 12-year-old boy who actually fired the shotgun was turned over to juvenile authorities.· I hadn't felt like this when I'd seen him firing the shotgun.· Johnny Robinson, 16, was shot in the back by a policeman who fired a shotgun at him.· When it got to that distance, I just stuck up the M79 and fired off a shotgun shell.· We test-fired the shotgun one day.
· Terri settled for riding shotgun up front with Robin and brooding darkly for the entire journey.· I looked, and I saw women riding shotgun.
· Male speaker I would take out my shotgun ... Voice over Mr Cox has put up a plaque explaining the stones.· Another guy, he took a shotgun and blasted four secretaries at Adelphi College.· He took a shotgun with him, to bring home a few birds, as he walked, should he see any.
The robbers were armed with sawn-off shotguns (=ones that have been made shorter, so the balls go in different directions).