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n A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol(,) or Derringer.

n A less portable, long firearm, bullet or projectile firing; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a musket or shotgun.

n (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.JP 1-02. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, 8 November 2010 (As Amended Through 15 March 2012). Page 142. ([//www.dtic.mil/doctrine/dod_dictionary/ Searchable online version])

n (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.

n Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube, even if it is not a firearm, e.g., air-pressure pellet gun, air rifle, BB gun, zipgun; a home-made firearm such as a potato gun.

n Any device or tool that projects a substance in a superficially similar fashion to a firearm, e.g., nail gun, squirt gun, spray gun, grease gun.

n A device or tool shaped like a pistol and operated in similar fashion by pulling a trigger with the index finger, e.g., rivet gun, screw gun, price-label gun.

n (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).

n (context|cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.

n (colloquial) A man who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.

n (colloquial|usually plural) The biceps.

v (qualifier|with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.

v To speed something up.

v To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.

v To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.

v To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.

v A verb used to express future action.