gun for

phrase

: to aim at or go after with determination or effort

Examples of gun for in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Bassetti was on fiery form during his fireside chat, calling out streamers for not sharing back end and calling on European producers to demand better terms of trade to avoid remaining simply guns for hire. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2026

In each situation, a parent purchased a gun for their teenage son as a Christmas gift and left the firearm unsecured. — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

The Knicks have the crown, but teams like the Philadelphia 76ers, who will have LeBron James and Jaylen Brown suiting up for their first regular-season game with them in Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night, gunning for the title. — Scott Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary is gunning for historic Oscar nominations. — Joyce Eng, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2026

Tesla is gunning for approvals across Europe, where EV sales have been on the rise this year amid soaring fuel costs caused by the war in Iran, and where Tesla sales have shown signs of recovery from a sales slump last year. — Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026

Alexis sees this, gets spooked, and goes and tells Linnea and Sharonda that Ana is gunning for them. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

Other documents from that time show the company was courting senators from seven additional states and gunning for more than $200 million in new appropriations. — William Turton, ProPublica, 22 Sep. 2026

Vaquer and Lynch also got into an argument with both gunning for the WWE Women’s World Championship. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for gun for

• abhor
• abor
• adore
• afore
• ardour
• ashore
• backdoor
• before
• bookstore
• candour
• centaur
• claymore