Gun
Gun noun - A portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder.
Usage example: while her father preferred hunting with a crossbow, she preferred a gun
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Synonyms for Gun
Rifle is a synonym for gun in weapon that shoots topic. In some cases you can use "Rifle" instead a noun "Gun". popular alternative
Nearby Word: gunroom
Rifle
Rifle noun - A shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore.
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- Dirge of Cerberus has Vincent using the vanilla Cerberus pistol (how "vanilla" a triple-barreled gun is is relative) in cutscenes, no matter how pimped out you have it, or if you were using the machine gun or rifle a second ago.
Source: No Cutscene Inventory Inertia - Occurs in Forrest Gump and any number of numerous sequences where somebody has to reassemble a rifle or gun in several pieces and for every motion you get two click or clack noises.
Source: Kinetic Clicking - Triple Unlock: In 4, getting a gun or a rifle is not enough to use it; you must first spend Samurai Points to buy a pistol/rifle certification, and then obtain the weapon, and then defeat the NPC that carries a fighting style corresponding to that weapon (either pistols or rifle).
Source: Video Game / Way of the Samurai
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