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gun kata

gun kata noun: synonym of gun fu (a style of balletic gunplay in action films).

Noun

gun kata (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of gun fu (a style of balletic gunplay in action films)
    • I learn from Nick Nunziata at www.CHUD.com that the form of battle used in the movie is “Gun-Kata,” which is “a martial art completely based around guns.” I credit Nunziata because I think he may have invented this term.2005, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2005, review of Equilibrium, page 208
    Synonyms:
    gun fu
  2. A fictional martial art based on gun fu.
    • The early 21st century. The totalitarian state of Libria has been established following a third world war and is presided over by the ubiquitous video-image of ‘Father’. To maintain harmony, the populace are forced to self-medicate with the emotion-suppressant Prozium. Sense Offenders, who skip...2003 April, Andy Richards, “Equilibrium”, in Sight and Sound, volume 13, page 35

Synonyms of gun kata

Origin of gun kata

Compound of gun + kata (“martial art movements”), from Japanese 型 (kata, “style, pattern”). Attested from, and possibly coined around 2003 for the film Equilibrium (see quotation below).

Words formed from gun kata

Questions about gun kata

What does gun kata mean?
Gun kata means synonym of gun fu (a style of balletic gunplay in action films).
What part of speech is gun kata?
Gun kata is a noun.

Words near gun kata in the dictionary

  1. gun furniture
  2. gun grabber
  3. gun grabbers
  4. gun it
  5. gun jumping
  6. gun kata
  7. gun lap
  8. gun laps
  9. gun layer
  10. gun layers
  11. gun licence

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