English-German translations for shotgun

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SchrotflintedieEs ist unglaublich, dass man in vielen Ländern eine Genehmigung für eine Schrotflinte braucht, während der Handel mit Waffen aller Art nicht genehmigungspflichtig ist. It is beyond belief that in many countries you need a licence to own a shotgun but not to trade in weapons of any type. Herr Stockton, vielen Dank für Ihre freundlichen Worte zur Bedeutung des amtierenden Präsidenten, aber ich muss sagen, dass ich eine Schrotflinte zu Hause habe, und das reicht mir eigentlich. Mr Stockton, thank you very much for your kind remarks concerning the importance of the acting president but I must say I have a shotgun in my house and this will be quite enough.

A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge
The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat
A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line
An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him
Relating to the threat of force or dubious means: e.g. shotgun wedding, shotgun diplomacy
To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth
To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher
To send out many , especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result , in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target
To employ the technique of shotgun debugging

Meat was cooked up within hours after the hunter killed the deer with his shotgun.
I call shotgun! (I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat
Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.
I got a day off because I shotgunned it.

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