Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to shotgun
Participle: shotgunned
Gerund: shotgunning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | shotgun |
| you | shotgun |
| he;she;it | shotguns |
| we | shotgun |
| you | shotgun |
| they | shotgun |
Perfect
| I | have shotgunned |
| you | have shotgunned |
| he;she;it | has shotgunned |
| we | have shotgunned |
| you | have shotgunned |
| they | have shotgunned |
Past
| I | shotgunned |
| you | shotgunned |
| he;she;it | shotgunned |
| we | shotgunned |
| you | shotgunned |
| they | shotgunned |
Pluperfect
| I | had shotgunned |
| you | had shotgunned |
| he;she;it | had shotgunned |
| we | had shotgunned |
| you | had shotgunned |
| they | had shotgunned |
Future
| I | will shotgun |
| you | will shotgun |
| he;she;it | will shotgun |
| we | will shotgun |
| you | will shotgun |
| they | will shotgun |
Future Perfect
| I | will have shotgunned |
| you | will have shotgunned |
| he;she;it | will have shotgunned |
| we | will have shotgunned |
| you | will have shotgunned |
| they | will have shotgunned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | shotgun |
| you | shotgun |
| he;she;it | shotgun |
| we | shotgun |
| you | shotgun |
| they | shotgun |
Perfect
| I | have shotgunned |
| you | have shotgunned |
| he;she;it | have shotgunned |
| we | have shotgunned |
| you | have shotgunned |
| they | have shotgunned |
Imperfect
| I | shotgunned |
| you | shotgunned |
| he;she;it | shotgunned |
| we | shotgunned |
| you | shotgunned |
| they | shotgunned |
Pluperfect
| I | had shotgunned |
| you | had shotgunned |
| he;she;it | had shotgunned |
| we | had shotgunned |
| you | had shotgunned |
| they | had shotgunned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would shotgun |
| you | would shotgun |
| he;she;it | would shotgun |
| we | would shotgun |
| you | would shotgun |
| they | would shotgun |
Perfect
| I | would have shotgunned |
| you | would have shotgunned |
| he;she;it | would have shotgunned |
| we | would have shotgunned |
| you | would have shotgunned |
| they | would have shotgunned |
Imperative
| you | shotgun |
| we | Let's shotgun |
| you | shotgun |
Verbs conjugated like 'shotgun'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'shotgun'
hotbunk,
hotten,
outgun,
shitcan,
shog,
shoggle,
shoogle,
shortcut,
shorten,
shot,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From shot + gun. Front passenger seat sense comes from ride shotgun.
Sample Sentences
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High as fuck, I light it up / Got pre-rolls for the whole month / She don't smoke but when I roll one / We shotgun the whole blunt [2017, “Super Potent”, in Renaissance, performed by The Underachievers:]
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I got a day off because I shotgunned it.
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An actual physical piece of paper shows that you're not just shotgunning out queries to every agent on the planet. [2009, Writing Fiction For Dummies, →ISBN:]
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Science fiction writers are “shotgunning ideas” through their works, he said, and people tend to recall the pellets that hit the target. [2011 December 6, John Schwartz, “Out of a Writer’s Imagination Came an Interactive World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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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. [2013, Zack Arias, Photography Q&A: Real Questions, Real Answers, page 197:]
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Understand the problem before fixing it. About the only scenario where shotgunning is useful is if there is a shorted IC and you cannot tell which one it is. [1998, Stuart Ball, Debugging Embedded Microprocessor Systems, page 71:]