gun down
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gun down
verb guns down · gunning down · gunned down
- To kill by means of a firearm, especially deliberately and in a brutal manner. When Manzanas arrived home from work, the assailant gunned him down from ambush with a volley of pistol shots and escaped across the nearby border to France.
- To shoot down; to put an end to. The CEO gunned down that idea before we could present it to the board.
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To masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation.
In the cell diagonally across from mine, a prisoner regularly “gunned down” the nurse on her morning rounds. He deliberately masturbated so that she'd see him through the cell door window as he ejaculated.
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Talk about this word "gun down." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/gun%20down. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. gun down. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/gun%20down "gun down." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/gun%20down.
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@misc{gun_down_2026,
title = {gun down},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gun%20down},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
