scatter-gun

Noun

scatter-gun noun

1. A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.“Meat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun.”
2. The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat.“I call shotgun! (I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.)”
3. A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.“Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.”
4. An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.

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