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footguns

footguns is the plural of footgun.

footguns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of footgun.

Meaning of footgun

Noun

footgun (plural footguns)

  1. (derogatory, humorous, slang) Any feature likely to lead to the programmer or user shooting themselves in the foot.
    • This is a footgun! ES6 should have specified that it either fulfills, rejects, or just throws some sort of synchronous error. Unfortunately, because of precedence in Promise libraries predating ES6 Promise, they had to leave this gotcha in there, […]2015, Kyle Simpson, You Don't Know JS: Async & Performance, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN
  2. by extension, generalised from (1.): An opportunity or object that allows the unfortunate to mostly figuratively but sometimes literally shoot themselves in the foot. A less obvious footgun may be a pitfall (1.).

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Questions about footguns

What is footguns the plural of?
Footguns is the plural of footgun.

Words near footguns in the dictionary

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

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