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SHOTGUNS

8 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

SHOTGUNS is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

SHOTGUNS root SHOTGUN-s

Word family

SHOTGUN 5 SHOTGUNNING-ning 11 SHOTGUNNED-ned 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableA gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
    • The farmer's son brought home a Thanksgiving turkey from the wild that he killed with his shotgun.
  2. countableslanguncountableThe front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat. Can also be used in situations of claiming other resources such as bedrooms.
    • I call shotgun!
    • I call shotgun!
  3. UScountableespeciallyuncountableA one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
    • Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.
  4. countableuncountableAn offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.
  5. attributivecountableuncountableRelating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense.
    • shotgun cartridges
    • shotgun seat
  6. attributivecountableuncountableRelating to the threat of force or dubious means.
    • shotgun wedding
    • shotgun diplomacy
  7. attributivecountableuncountableRelating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result.
    • shotgun marketing
    • shotgun approach
verb
  1. slangTo inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
  2. informaltransitiveTo verbally lay claim to (something)
    • I got a day off because I shotgunned it.
  3. transitiveTo hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
  4. USslangTo rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
  5. USslangTo send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
  6. slangTo employ the technique of shotgun debugging.