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shotgunned

  • past participle
    of shotgun.
    shotgun
    noun
    a smoothbore gun for firing small shot to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
  • past tense form
    of shotgun.
    shotgun
    noun
    a smoothbore gun for firing small shot to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.

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And then he shotgunned a can of water.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2018

One man, shotgunned into marriage, had to be discharged because he developed a severe case of ulcerative colitis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Conference on Trade and Development, 75 underdeveloped nations squared off against 29 industrialized nations, which had been shotgunned into the meeting in the first place.

From Time Magazine Archive

Embarked on an eight-day tour of ten states starting in the Dakotas, he shotgunned Johnson Administration policies from the battlefields of Viet Nam to the wheat fields of the plains.

From Time Magazine Archive

A cookbook lies facedown in her path like a shotgunned bird.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr