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gun
verb- to accelerate a vehicle or rev its engine US, 1920
- “Hang on! We’re off,” and Francine gunned the hot motor and burned rubber as she peeled away from the parking lot. — Vance Donovan, High Rider, p. 38, 1969
- Gerry Burtonshaw gunned his engine, pulled round a lumbering lorry and came alongside the speeding Jaguar. — The Sweeney, p. 53, 1976
- to inject a drug intravenously UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 290, 2003
- to look over, to examine UK, 1812
- Al always showed up surrounded by a gang of trigger men – they sat in a croner, very gay and noisy but gunning the whole situation out of the corners of their eyes. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 63, 1946
- My two think chicks. They see her. Gunning me. The bitch. — Sara Harris, They Sell Sex, p. 74, 1960
- “Why are you gunning me?” Chllly asked. — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 244, 1967
- “Look at her,” he said, indicating Jackie Onassis, “she’s been gunning me all night.” — Ovid Demaris, The Last Mafioso, pp. 417–418, 1981
- to attack verbally UK
- — Susie Dent, The Language Report, p. 76, 2003
- in computing, to use a computer’s force-quit feature to close a malfunctioning program US
- Some idiot left a useless background program running, soaking up half the cycles. So I gunned it. — Guy L. Steele et al., The Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 75, 1983
- to have sex with US
- I was probably the only guy in the world who went to such trouble to see an old ballgame and trying to gun cunts along the way. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road (The Original Scroll), p. 329, 1951
- to be associated with or engage in criminal activity US
- Never mind that you were gunning with the dead man for a decade. — David Simon and Edward Burns, The Corner, p. 72, 1997
▶ gun it
(of a vehicle) to travel at top speed US
From earlier, now conventional sense of “gun” (to run an engine at full power).- — Complete CB Slang Dictionary, 1976
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 155, 1981
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