1
: a soldier or airman who operates or aims a gun
2
: one who hunts with a gun
3
: a warrant officer who supervises ordnance and ordnance stores
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Practice squad callup Corey Ballentine played gunner opposite Brenden Schooler.
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Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Some French gunner, now long dead, had lifted it from a crate, shoved it into the breech of a cannon and fired it during that horrible year of 1916.
—Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
The 2016 book tells the incredible true story of Arthur Meyerowitz, an American turret-gunner whose B-24 bomber was shot down over Vichy France in 1943.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Commanders, drivers, and gunners can each select modes suited to their tasks.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
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Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Some French gunner, now long dead, had lifted it from a crate, shoved it into the breech of a cannon and fired it during that horrible year of 1916.
—Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
The 2016 book tells the incredible true story of Arthur Meyerowitz, an American turret-gunner whose B-24 bomber was shot down over Vichy France in 1943.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
Commanders, drivers, and gunners can each select modes suited to their tasks.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Gunner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gunner. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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gunner
noun
gun·ner
ˈgən-ər 
1
: one who operates or aims a gun
2
: one who hunts with a gun
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