gun down

Verb

gun down (third-person singular simple present guns down, present participle gunning down, simple past and past participle gunned down)

1. (transitive) To kill by means of a firearm, especially deliberately and in a brutal manner.
   • When Manzanas arrived home from work, the assailant gunned him down from ambush with a volley of pistol shots and escaped across the nearby border to France.1968 September 6, “Spain: The Basque Rebellion”, in Time
2. (figuratively, transitive) To shoot down; to put an end to.
   • The CEO gunned down that idea before we could present it to the board.
3. (US, slang, transitive) To masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation.
   • In the cell diagonally across from mine, a prisoner regularly “gunned down” the nurse on her morning rounds. He deliberately masturbated so that she'd see him through the cell door window as he ejaculated.2004, Jens Soering, Yoga of Heart

   Synonyms:

   gun