Synonyms of gun

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noun

1

as in firearm

a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder

while her father preferred hunting with a crossbow, she preferred a gun

Synonyms & Similar Words

• firearm
• rifle
• pistol
• handgun
• arm
• shotgun
• revolver
• musket
• small arm
• piece
• derringer
• heat
• semiautomatic
• zip gun
• .45
• sidearm
• carbine
• flintlock
• firelock
• harquebus
• blunderbuss
• roscoe
• matchlock
• gat
• culverin
• rod
• machine gun
• smoothbore
• six-shooter
• automatic
• fieldpiece
• .22
• submachine gun
• breechloader
• six-gun
• assault rifle
• machine pistol
• assault weapon
• self-loader
• speargun
• tommy gun
• arquebus
• repeater
• AK-47
• forty-five
• twenty-two

2

as in weapons

guns plural large firearms (as cannon or rockets)

the field commander called for the big guns to be deployed for the full-scale assault

Synonyms & Similar Words

• weapons
• artillery
• ammunition
• ordnance
• weaponry
• arms
• armament
• munitions

gun

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verb

as in to shoot

to strike with a missile from a gun

traded stories of the Wild West, when outlaws gunned men down in broad daylight and in cold blood

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shoot
• drill
• pop
• plug
• kill
• pistol
• drop
• slaughter
• shotgun
• destroy
• slay
• pepper
• blow away
• bring down
• butcher
• pick off
• shoot down
• blaze
• massacre
• potshot
• dispatch
• fell
• snipe (at)
• tommy-gun
• fire (at)
• machine-gun
• wipe out
• ice
• blot out
• blast (at)
• decimate
• annihilate
• do in
• croak

Phrases Containing gun

• big gun
• son of a gun

• big gun
• son of a gun