shot-gun
See also: shotgun
English
Noun
shot-gun (countable and uncountable, plural shot-guns)
- Alternative spelling of shotgun.
- 1919, Zöe Akins, chapter V, in Cake Upon the Waters, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 85:
- He gave Kitty advice about everything; he tramped the hills with the dogs, carrying a shot-gun that he never used; and he adventured upon a recently recommended diet of buttermilk and hickory-nuts.