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gunkata

gunkata is the alternative form of gun kata.

gunkata is the alternative form of gun-kata.

Meaning of gun kata

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

Meaning of gun-kata

Adjective

gun-kata (comparative more gun-kata, superlative most gun-kata)

  1. Pertaining to gun kata

Forms of gunkata

comparativemore gunkata
superlativemost gunkata

Questions about gunkata

What is gunkata the alternative form of?
Gunkata is the alternative form of gun kata.

Words near gunkata in the dictionary

  1. gunk-hole
  2. gunk-holed
  3. gunk-holes
  4. gunk-holing
  5. gunkanmaki
  6. gunkata
  7. gunked
  8. gunked up
  9. gunkeeper
  10. gunkeepers
  11. Gunkel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gunkata (page history and authors); gun kata (page history and authors); gun-kata (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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