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shotgun

 noun
     
Related topics: Weapons
shot‧gun [countable]
PMW a long gun fired from the shoulder, that shoots many small round balls at one time, used especially for killing birds or animals:
The robbers were armed with sawn-off shotguns (=ones that have been made shorter, so the balls go in different directions).
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