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gun it

gun it verb: to accelerate or speed up quickly or suddenly.

Verb

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

  1. (informal) To accelerate or speed up quickly or suddenly.
    • You're going to have to gun it to pick up that much speed in such a short distance.

Forms of gun it

third-person singular presentguns it
present participlegunning it
past participlegunned it
pastgunned it

Questions about gun it

What does gun it mean?
Gun it means to accelerate or speed up quickly or suddenly.
What part of speech is gun it?
Gun it is a verb.
What is the past tense of gun it?
The past tense of gun it is gunned it.

Words near gun it in the dictionary

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  3. gun furniture
  4. gun grabber
  5. gun grabbers
  6. gun it
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  8. gun kata
  9. gun lap
  10. gun laps
  11. gun layer

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