engelska-svenska översättning av shotgun

hagelgevärettTack så mycket för era vänliga ord om den tjänstgörande talmannens betydelse, herr Stockton, men jag måste säga att jag har ett hagelgevär i mitt hus och det får nog räcka med det.Mr Stockton, thank you very much for your kind remarks concerning the importance of the acting president but I must say I have a shotgun in my house and this will be quite enough.
framsäteettJag vill sitta i framsätet!

A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge
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
A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line
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
Relating to the threat of force or dubious means: e.g. shotgun wedding, shotgun diplomacy
To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth
To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher
To send out many , especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result , in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target
To employ the technique of shotgun debugging

Meat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun.
I call shotgun! (I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat
Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.
I got a day off because I shotgunned it.

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