run and gun

present singular third person runs and guns · participle present running and gunning · past ran and gunned · participle past run and gunned

1. attributiveoftenball gamesTo move the ball quickly and shoot often.

   This team likes to run and gun.

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   They're really running and gunning now.

   This coach likes to play a run-and-gun offense.

2. idiomaticTo do something hastily and with great energy.

   “We used to just run and gun it,” he says. “Now that we’ve gotten bigger and things got more expensive and we need to kind of up the ante, there’s a lot more production time that goes into it.”

   2019 October 28, Hannah Sampson, “Inside the creation of travel-worthy haunted houses”, in The Washington Post

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   It has this sort of impulsiveness to it: “One and done.” We do full, A-story episodes in one chunk. For episode six we had Lauren Lapkus, Horatio Sanz, Mitch Hurwitz, me, Mike and Meghan O’Neill in the studio for four hours…we can’t get those people back! So we have to run and gun it.

   2016 March 4, Drew Grant, “‘Animals.’ Creators Mike Luciano and Phil Matarese on Making a D.I.Y. Cartoon for HBO”, in Observer