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Definition of Scattergun
1. Noun. Firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges.
Generic synonyms: Firearm, Piece, Small-arm
Specialized synonyms: Fowling Piece, Sawed-off Shotgun
Terms within: Pump Action, Slide Action
Definition of Scattergun
1. Noun. A shotgun. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scattergun
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scattergun
Literary usage of Scattergun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flat Tax by Robert Ernest Hall, Alvin Rabushka (1995)
"... with child care and other responsibilities should be attacked specifically
within the welfare system, not with the scattergun of the tax system. ..."
2. The Media and the Rwanda Genocide by Allan Thompson (2007)
"We had little time to take in the scene - filming mass human misery in cold,
scattergun fashion. Some of these Hutus were perpetrators or accomplices to the ..."
3. The Celtic Magazine by Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain (1887)
"... or "scattergun," but the Globe takes exception to the word "disgruntled,"
which occurs in a phrase used by Patrick Ford —" disgruntled machine ..."
4. Notes on Sport and Travel by George Henry Kingsley (1900)
"As the fires are being lighted, I take up my scattergun and wander away upwards —
carefully marking every point with care, for it is horribly easy to get ..."
5. Old Judge Priest by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1916)
"That there old scattergun, which he looked down the barrels of it the other night,
wasn't loaded." "Wasn't loaded? Wheel" chortled Mr. Flournoy. ..."
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