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A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.

Example: Meat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun.

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.

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

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

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

An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.

(smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.

To verbally lay claim to (something)

Example: I got a day off because I shotgunned it.

To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.

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.