gun
slang
1. verb (of a vehicle) To accelerate or increase speed suddenly or rapidly. Okay, I've got the cash. Now gun it and get us out of here! We'll have to gun it if we want to make it to the movie on time! Would you gun it already? The cops are gonna catch up to us!
2. noun One who has been hired to kill someone. The boss will have a hired gun take care of the informant, don't worry. The woman was arrested when the gun she tried to hire turned out to be an undercover police officer. Don't worry about that snitch. We've sent a couple of hired guns around to his house, so he won't be a problem for us much longer.
3. noun A particularly muscular arm; an arm's large bicep. Usually used in the plural in reference to both arms or both sets of biceps. He always wears tank tops so he can show off his guns. I caught her flexing her guns in front of the mirror after her workout. Personally, I'm most attracted to skinny nerds. A muscle man with serious guns does nothing for me.
4. noun An important, successful, or influential person. He's the gun at the law firm; he wins every court case he gets. After failing to convince the IT department that implementing new network security controls would be in everyone's best interest, Mike felt it was time to bring in the big guns, so he called a company meeting with the executive board. A: "You're not one of the great guns around here?" B: "Goodness, no. You must be thinking of my brother, he's the CEO."
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