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Shotgun vs Null - What's the difference?

shotgun | null |

As nouns the difference between shotgun and null

is that shotgun is (label) a gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb shotgun

is (slang|smoking) to inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.

As an adjective shotgun

is of or relating to a shotgun.

shotgun

English

Alternative forms

* shot-gun

Noun

  • (label) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
  • (slang) 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.
  • I call shotgun ! (I claim the right to sit in the passenger seat.)
  • (US) A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line. Mostly heard in the southern United States.
  • Elvis Presley was born in a two-bedroom shotgun in Tupelo, Mississippi.
  • (American football) A play formation in which the quarterback is a few feet behind the snapper when the ball is hiked, ideally allowing for an easier pass play.
  • Synonyms

    * (gun which fires loads of small metal balls) scattergun

    Derived terms

    * double-barrelled shotgun * ride shotgun * sawn-off shotgun / sawed-off shotgun * shotgun sequencing * shotgun shack * shotgun wedding * shotty

    Verb

    (shotgunn)
  • (slang, smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
  • (informal) To verbally lay claim to (something)
  • I got a day off because I shotgunned it.
  • (baseball) To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
  • (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.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to a shotgun.
  • The ground was littered with shotgun shells.
  • Occurring as a result of the threat of force.
  • a shotgun wedding
  • Utilizing numerous or highly diverse means to achieve a particular result.
  • Anagrams

    * *

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----