top gun
top gun noun: an expert gunner or gunman.
Noun
top gun (plural top guns)
- An expert gunner or gunman.
- Someone most highly rated.
- Woke her up around one
She didn't hesitate to call Ice Cube the top gun1992, Ice Cube, “It Was a Good Day”, in The Predator
- Synonyms:
- baron, big cheese, big enchilada, big gun, big kahuna, big man, big name, big noise, big shot, bigwig
- Woke her up around one
Synonyms of top gun
29 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- big wheel
- boss
- grand poobah
- head honcho
- heavy hitter
- heavyweight
- high muckamuck
- high muckety-muck
- king of all one surveys
- king of the castle
- king of the hill
- kingpin
- macher
- mayor
- muckamuck
- muckety muck
- mugwump
- numero uno
- panjandrum
- poobah
- rooster
- somebody
- top banana
- top boy
- top cat
- top dog
- very important person
- VIP
- wheel
Forms of top gun
| plural | top guns |
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Questions about top gun
- What does top gun mean?
- Top gun means an expert gunner or gunman.
- What part of speech is top gun?
- Top gun is a noun.
- What is the plural of top gun?
- The plural of top gun is top guns.
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