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shotgun double

shotgun double noun: two shotgun houses which share a central wall.

Noun

shotgun double (plural shotgun doubles)

  1. (US) Two shotgun houses which share a central wall.
    • I saw a dead guy on the front porch of a shotgun double on a working-class street, and the only sound was wind chimes.2005, Chris Rose, 1 Dead in Attic, Simon & Schuster, published 2015, page 11

Forms of shotgun double

pluralshotgun doubles

Questions about shotgun double

What does shotgun double mean?
Shotgun double means two shotgun houses which share a central wall.
What part of speech is shotgun double?
Shotgun double is a noun.
What is the plural of shotgun double?
The plural of shotgun double is shotgun doubles.

Words near shotgun double in the dictionary

  1. shotgun
  2. shotgun approach
  3. shotgun approaches
  4. shotgun cloning
  5. shotgun debugging
  6. shotgun double
  7. shotgun doubles
  8. shotgun fungi
  9. shotgun fungus
  10. shotgun home
  11. shotgun house

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