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run and gunned

run and gunned is the past participle of run and gun.

Meaning of run and gun

Verb

run and gun (third-person singular simple present runs and guns, present participle running and gunning, simple past ran and gunned, past participle run and gunned)

  1. (attributive, often) To move the ball quickly and shoot often.
    • This team likes to run and gun.
  2. (idiomatic) To do something hastily and with great energy.
    • It has this sort of impulsiveness to it: “One and done.” We do full, A-story episodes in one chunk. For episode six we had Lauren Lapkus, Horatio Sanz, Mitch Hurwitz, me, Mike and Meghan O’Neill in the studio for four hours…we can’t get those people back! So we have to run and gun it.2016 March 4, Drew Grant, “‘Animals.’ Creators Mike Luciano and Phil Matarese on Making a D.I.Y. Cartoon for HBO”, in Observer

Questions about run and gunned

What is run and gunned the past participle of?
Run and gunned is the past participle of run and gun.

Words near run and gunned in the dictionary

  1. run along
  2. run amok
  3. run amuck
  4. run an errand
  5. run and gun
  6. run and gunned
  7. run and repeat
  8. run and repeated
  9. run around
  10. run around after
  11. run around in circles

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