Shot"gun` (?), n. A light, smooth- bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.

Shot"gun` (?), n. A light, smooth- bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.

• A gun which fires loads consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
  
• (slang,uncountable) The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver.
        I've got shotgun!
  
• 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.
  
• (slang) As in smoking herbal substance; to inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else's mouth.
  
• (baseball) To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.