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Some terms for a gun in different languages:
  • Arabic: بُنْدُقِيَّه، مدْفَع
  • Chinese (Simplified): 枪;炮
  • Chinese (Traditional): 槍;砲
  • Czech: střelná zbraň
  • Danish: skydevåben
  • Estonian: püss, tulirelv
  • Finnish: ampuma-ase, pyssy
  • French: arme à feu
  • German: das Gewehr, das Geschütz
  • Greek: όπλο, κανόνι, πιστόλι
  • Hungarian: (lő)fegyver
  • Icelandic: byssa, skotvopn
  • Indonesian: senjata api
  • Italian: arma da fuoco*
  • Japanese: 銃
  • Korean: 총, 대포
  • Latvian: šautene; lielgabals
  • Lithuanian: šaunamasis ginklas
  • Norwegian: skytevåpen; gevær, pistol; kanon
  • Polish: rewolwer, pistolet
  • Portuguese (Brazil): arma de fogo
  • Portuguese (Portugal): arma
  • Romanian: armă de foc
  • Russian: (огнестрельное) оружие
  • Slovak: strelná zbraň
  • Slovenian: puška
  • Spanish: arma de fuego; pistola
  • Swedish: kanon, bössa, revolver, pistol
  • Turkish: silâh, tüfek, tabanca
Slang for Guns and Shooting
  • Shooting Iron
  • Gat or Gatt
  • Heater
  • Cannon
  • Burner
  • Rod or Rodney
  • Piece
  • Hog Leg
  • Six-Gun
  • Zip Gun
  • Bean-Shooter
  • Li'l Buddy
  • Roscoe
  • Streetsweeper (machine gun)
  • Tommy Gun (machine gun)
  • to pump someone full of lead
  • to rain lead or scatter lead
  • to throw lead
  • to fill someone with lead
  • to give someone lead poisoning
  • to drill someone or drill someone full of holes
  • to let in daylight or fill someone with daylight(shoot someone full of holes)
  • to squirt metal
  • to burn powder
  • to fog
  • to pump metal

Some other terms

  • AD - accidental discharge
  • AR - AR15 Semi Automatic Rifle (AR Stands for Armalite which is the company that designed this type of weapon not Assault Rifle as gun control advocates would often have you believe). AR's are also not much different from any other hunting rifle.
  • biscuit - gun
  • bust a cap (or busta cap) - fire a cartridge
  • cap - cartridge
  • carrying - carrying a gun
  • heeled - carrying a gun
  • holding iron or wearing iron - carrying a gun
  • packing heat - carrying a gun
  • holding - carrying a gun
  • strapped up - holding a gun, carrying a gun
  • toy - middle eastern English term for a pistol
  • slugs, lugs, or shells - bullets
  • to dry-gulch - to shoot someone from ambush
  • Chicago lightning - gunfire
  • to have an itchy trigger finger - someone who is quick to fire a gun
  • trigger man - person hired to fire or handle guns

Some Hip Hop terms:

  • Eight plus one (9mm handgun)
  • Macs (Mac 10 or 11 handguns)
  • Techs (Tech-9 handguns)
  • Chrome
  • Gats (old slang, but in modern use, possibly from gatling gun)
  • K - ak 47
  • 4 pounda - 40 caliber gun
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