Afraid to use a gun. || Frightened by the sound of gunfire. || (figuratively) Fearing the consequences of repeating an act, especially after being reprimanded.
After his last suggestion was laughed at by his colleagues, he was gunshy about making another suggestion.
As the thunder of the guns finally subsided, thick clouds of sulfureous gunsmoke drifted away to reveal a ghastly scene of carnage.
Out go the twitching nostrils, flailing arms and sniffy declamations about a cheeky scintilla of vanilla and oodles of gunsmoke.
Every now and then they would fire a pair of missiles which would explode and send a plume of darker smoke above the white haze of gunsmoke already hanging above the camp.
(with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm. || To speed something up. || To offer vigorous support to a person or cause. || To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone. || To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
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1.The repeated firing of a gun or guns.
‘they'd been caught up in _gunfire_ in Beirut’
‘She said the deceased and herself were crossing the road when _gunfire_ broke out suddenly as a car drove by.’
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‘they'd been caught up in _gunfire_ in Beirut’
