Meanings
nounray gun (plural ray guns)
plural ray guns
- engineeringA weapon that shoots harmful rays.
Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe / Put your ray gun to my head
1972, “Moonage Daydream”, in The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, performed by David BowieSynonyms: energy weapon, w:directed energy weapon, DEW, death ray, particle beamer
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA weapon that shoots harmful rays.
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Translations
Catalan pistola de raigs
- pistola de raigsa science fiction energy weapon
Finnish sädease, sädepyssy
- sädeasea science fiction energy weapon
- sädepyssya science fiction energy weapon
- sädepistoolia science fiction energy weapon
French pistolet à rayons
- pistolet à rayonsa science fiction energy weapon
German Strahlengewehr
- Strahlengewehra science fiction energy weapon
Icelandic geislabyssa
- geislabyssaa science fiction energy weapon
Japanese 光線銃
- 光線銃 (kōsenjū)a science fiction energy weapon
Korean 광선총
- 광선총 (gwangseonchong)a science fiction energy weapon
Portuguese arma de raio, arma de raios
- arma de raioa science fiction energy weapon
- arma de raiosa science fiction energy weapon
Spanish pistola de rayos
- pistola de rayosa science fiction energy weapon
Swedish strålpistol
- strålpistola science fiction energy weapon
Welsh dryll pelydr, gwn pelydr
- dryll pelydra science fiction energy weapon
- gwn pelydra science fiction energy weapon
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APA
ray gun. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ray%20gun
MLA
“ray gun.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ray%20gun. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ray gun,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ray%20gun.
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