[ˈʃɒtɡʌn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a smooth-bore gun for firing small shot at short range, having a single barrel or two barrels
(e.g: a group of men broke into the property armed with a shotgun)

- the front passenger seat in a vehicle
(e.g: I took the shotgun seat)


Phrases:
- call shotgun
- ride shotgun

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[ˈʃɒtɡʌn], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- aimed at a wide range of things; having no specific target
(e.g: many companies use the shotgun approach, aiming advertising at the widest possible audience)

- denoting a long, narrow single-storey house whose rooms are arranged one behind another
(e.g: his family lived in a shotgun shack in South Memphis)


Phrases:
- call shotgun
- ride shotgun

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[ˈʃɒtɡʌn], (Verb)

Definitions:
- shoot at or kill with a shotgun
(e.g: he had been shotgunned by drug dealers)

- consume (a canned drink) in one go by puncturing the can, putting one’s mouth over the resulting hole, and then opening the can by means of the ring pull to produce a rapid flow
(e.g: a group of us shotgunned beers)


Phrases:
- call shotgun
- ride shotgun

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