shotgun

englanti

sit shotgun – istua pelkääjän paikalla

I call shotgun! – varata etupenkki (matkustajana)

Liittyvät sanat: pump-action shotgun

Synonyymisanakirja

Johnson, the terrorists have the bomb. They're going to kill everybody in the city. We can't let the terrorists win, so you have to kill everybody before they do. Here's a shotgun. Start from downtown.(Suomeksi: Johnson, terroristeillä on pommi. He aikovat tappaa jokaisen kaupungissa. Emme saa antaa terroristien voittaa, joten sinun pitää tappaa kaikki ennen kuin he tekevät sen. Tässä on haulikko. Aloita keskustasta.)

shotgun rimmaa näiden kanssa:

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puhekieltä A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
puhekieltä The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat.

I call shotgun! (I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.)

puhekieltä A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.

Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.

puhekieltä A play formation in which the quarterback is a few feet behind the snapper when the ball is hiked, ideally allowing for an easier pass play.
puhekieltä To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
puhekieltä To verbally lay claim to (something)

I got a day off because I shotgunned it.

puhekieltä To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
puhekieltä To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
puhekieltä To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
2009, Writing Fiction For Dummies (ISBN 0470585234):

2013, Zack Arias, Photography Q&A: Real Questions, Real Answers, page 197:
It's like they are on a generic mailing list and some photographer is just shotgunning cards out into the world with no thought as to who they are actually going to.
Of or relating to a shotgun.

The ground was littered with shotgun shells.

a shotgun wedding