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footgunning

footgunning is the present participle and gerund of footgun.

Meaning of footgun

Verb

footgun (third-person singular simple present footguns, present participle footgunning, simple past and past participle footgunned)

  1. (idiomatic) To shoot oneself in the foot.

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Questions about footgunning

What is footgunning the present participle and gerund of?
Footgunning is the present participle and gerund of footgun.

Words near footgunning in the dictionary

  1. footgolf
  2. footguard
  3. footguards
  4. footgun
  5. footgunned
  6. footgunning
  7. footguns
  8. foothalt
  9. foothill
  10. Foothill Farms
  11. foothill pine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footgunning (page history and authors); footgun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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