gun it

gun it

To accelerate or increase speed suddenly or rapidly; to travel or move very quickly. Usually said while traveling in an automobile. We'll have to gun it if we want to make it to the movie on time! Okay, I've got the cash. Now gun it and get us out of here!
See also: gun
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • hit the gas
  • put (one's) foot to the floor
  • gun
  • guns
  • a turn of speed
  • turn of speed
  • travel on (one's) own
  • keep/put the pedal to the metal
  • put the hammer down
  • with the pedal to the metal
References in periodicals archive
HE TALKS TO GEORGIA HUMPHREYS ABOUT FILMING IN MINUS 35 DEGREE WEATHER AND WHY HE'S KEEPING HIS CHARACTER'S GUN IT'S impossible to ignore how emotional Richard Dormer feels about the end of Fortitude.
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"You put a bullet at one end of the gun it's going to come out the other end.
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I selected a fourteen-ounce spring, which is about half the weight I'd want on a big game rifle (up to a certain point, a crisp trigger pull on a big game rifle is more important than an extremely light trigger), but for a precision varmint gun it's just what I like.
Trigger control: why shouldn't we demand high quality triggers in our hunting rifles?
Once you break out of the bunker, it's welcome to the jungle and you soon find that the most essential piece of kit you can get isn't an ever-bigger gun it's a pair of binoculars.
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But what Wolfowitz actually said at the IISS Asia Security Conference was not the smoking gun it's been made out to be, although still reprehensible: "We had virtually no economic options with Iraq because the country floats on a sea of oil.
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If you do lube the gun it's best to use some kind of dry lube.
Rust & dust
Glock is coming out with the G42, the smallest gun it's ever built: 5.9 inches in overall length with its 3.25-inch barrel.
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