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GUN

3 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
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Super Big too short
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GUN is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

GUNS-s 1 GUNNING-ning 5 GUNNED-ned 3

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

GUNNINGS 11
noun
  1. A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
    • Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.
    • Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised his gun at the approaching deer.
  2. A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
  3. A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
  4. A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
  5. A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more.
  6. figurativelyA firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.
    • 21-gun salute
  7. Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
    • air-pressure pellet gun
    • zipgun
    • nail gun
  8. A device or tool that projects a substance.
    • squirt gun
    • spray gun
    • grease gun
  9. A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
    • a rivet gun
    • screw gun
    • a price-label gun
  10. A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
  11. A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
  12. colloquialmetonymicallyA person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.
    • Some said that the cowboy was the fastest gun in the West.
  13. An electron gun.
  14. colloquialThe biceps.
  15. Violent blasts of wind.
  16. AustraliaslangSomeone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, skilful, or cool.
  17. obsoleteslangA magsman or street thief.
verb
  1. transitiveTo shoot with a gun.
  2. transitiveTo cause to speed up.
    • He gunned the engine.
  3. informalTo offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
    • We're all gunning for you.
  4. informal(gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
  5. 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.
  6. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
  7. USambitransitiveslangSynonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).
  8. nonstandardNonstandard spelling of going to.
    • I'm gun go get my coat from da closet.