The word “shotgun” is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used to refer to a type of gun, or to mean a metaphorically “first shot” at something. For example, you could say, “I want to take the shotgun approach when planning this event.”
Michael McMillan said when he came to Kaarma's home on 23 April to spray for insects, an angry Kaarma came to the front door naked, pointed a shotgun at him and asked what he was doing there.
They found two semi-automatic pistols, a revolver, a shotgun and a rifle in the vehicle, along with a laptop, he said.
'Fortunately,' quips the journo, 'I had a pump-action shotgun with me and mowed him down there and then.
It occurs to me, putting aside all consideration of who he is as a private indi vidual, that this is who Kevin Spacey is becoming as an actor - a shotgun marriage of two great performers and stars who seem, on the face of it, improbable bedfellows - Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino.
Markus Kaarma, 30, is charged with baiting 17-year-old Diren Dede into sneaking into Kaarma's darkened garage early ono 27 April and killing him with four shotgun blasts.
The abuse Perez alleges is reminiscent of an earlier era of police torture in Chicago, when Darrell Cannon had a shotgun barrel jammed into his mouth.
We told you in February that iron woman and model Candice Falzon had taken legal action against the Daily Telegraph after it published a column by gossip writer Annette Sharp headlined "The evolution of the shotgun marriage: a modern Sydney princess story".
The drama bounces from Texas to Mississippi on the cusp of the civil war, effects a shotgun wedding of 60s spaghetti western with 70s "slavesploitation" and douses the magnolia in arterial blood.
A lawn care worker testified Friday that Kaarma pointed a shotgun at him four days before Dede's shooting.
As a roosting marsh harrier rises from a field of barley displaying wings tattered from shotgun pellets, Nimrod Mifsud, a Maltese volunteer for the charity, says local birdwatchers take little pleasure in seeing a rare bird.
