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Source Word

gun

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɡʌn/

Verb

transitive informal intransitive slang

(transitive) To cause to speed up. / (transitive, informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause). / To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.

Japanese Meaning

（他動詞）（機械などを）加速させる、速める / （他動詞・口語）（人や事柄を）熱烈に支持する、力強く後援する / （他動詞）（誰かに）攻撃を仕掛ける、狙いを定める

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Please gun the engine so we can make it to the appointment on time.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

予約に間に合うように、エンジンの回転数を上げてください。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To cause to speed up.

He gunned the engine.

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Sense（2）

(transitive, informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).

We're all gunning for you.

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Sense（3）

To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.

He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.

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Sense（4）

To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.

Sense（5）

(transitive, intransitive, prison slang) To masturbate while observing and visible to a corrections officer.

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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guns

（ present singular third-person ）

gunning

（ participle present ）

gunned

（ participle past ）

gunned

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