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gun down

verb

  1. to shoot
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Wiktionary

verb

  1. To kill by means of a firearm, especially deliberately and in a brutal manner.

    When Manzanas arrived home from work, the assailant gunned him down from ambush with a volley of pistol shots and escaped across the nearby border to France.

  2. To shoot down; to put an end to.

    The CEO gunned down that idea before we could present it to the board.

  3. To masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation.

    In the cell diagonally across from mine, a prisoner regularly “gunned down” the nurse on her morning rounds. He deliberately masturbated so that she'd see him through the cell door window as he ejaculated.