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shotgun
adjective- used of a house or apartment, having rooms set on both sides of a central hall US, 1903
- It was a shotgun flat, one room opening into the other. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 31, 1959
- And you may find yourself / living in a shotgun shack. — Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime, 1980
- It was a warm, lovely, sexy feeling, projected down a long San Francisco shotgun flat, some fifty or sixty feet. — Stephen Gaskin, Amazing Dope Tales, p. 2, 1980
- I was living in half a shotgun double on Magazine with hardly any furniture, a job I hated, and I was thinking on and off of getting married. — Elmore Leonard, Bandits, p. 20, 1987
- Rodney’s apartment looked like every other seventy-five-year-old shotgun flat in Dempsy. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 61, 1992
- wide-ranging US
- You occasionally read about shotgun or scattershot pleadings, but there’s a lot more iffy fishing alleged among litigators than gun-play or even snare-setting. — The Lawyers Weekly, 8 July 1994
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