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gun
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gun noun armament, arms, carbine, firearm, lethal inntrument, munition, piece, pistol, repeater, revolver, rifle, shotgun, tormentum, weapon
Associated concepts: concealed weapon, deadly weapon


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Nagle's report, which I thought, to put it charitably, was jumping the gun.
We're not in the same situation as in the 1970s," harrumphed Carl Haub of the Population Reference Bureau who, when apprised of the UN's latest figures, accused the world body of jumping the gun.
Maurice Greene, the Fastest Man Alive, Is Asked the Secret of His Success He answers almost before the question's out, neither jumping the gun, nor waiting around for the undulation of sound to lap him, but, surging on the still moment of the thought's articulation, he foots the border of start and stop.
 
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