shotgunned

Verb

shotgun (third-person singular simple present shotguns, present participle shotgunning, simple past and past participle shotgunned)

1. (slang) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
   • High as fuck, I light it up / Got pre-rolls for the whole month / She don't smoke but when I roll one / We shotgun the whole blunt2017, “Super Potent”, in Renaissance, performed by The Underachievers
2. (informal, transitive) To verbally lay claim to (something)
   • I got a day off because I shotgunned it.
3. (transitive) To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
4. (US, slang) To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
5. (US, slang) To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
   • An actual physical piece of paper shows that you're not just shotgunning out queries to every agent on the planet.2009, Writing Fiction For Dummies, →ISBN
6. (slang) To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.
   • Understand the problem before fixing it. About the only scenario where shotgunning is useful is if there is a shorted IC and you cannot tell which one it is.1998, Stuart Ball, Debugging Embedded Microprocessor Systems, page 71

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