splatter gun

A form of splatter-gun — A shotgun, assault weapon, or other gun that repeatedly fires quickly and in an imprecise fashion.

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Meanings

nounsplatter gun (plural splatter guns)

plural splatter guns

  1. alternativeAlternative form of splatter-gun.

    The door wasn't just locked. Someone had welded it shut with a splatter gun.

    2010, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Effendi, →ISBN
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    Well, in there lives a hundred-year-old Elder with a nasty ponytail, who stuffs jacks and finishing nails in his splatter gun and patrols these fields at night on his fast electric Cushman.

    1999, Tom Bradley, Killing Bryce, →ISBN, page 338

    On the headboard and wall just behind and to the right of the bed, blood formed curious stain patterns as though some neurotic artist had sprayed red paint with a splatter gun.

    2009, William Kerr, Mark of the Devil, →ISBN

    Mr Bannerjee's smile disappeared as quickly as if Sam had just shot it with his antimatter splatter gun.

    2013, Jeremy Strong, Cartoon Kid - Zombies!, →ISBN

    She continued pulling the knife out and plunging it back into his body over and over until Victor pointed the splatter gun in her direction and pulled the trigger, figuring Adam was already a lost cause.

    2014, Duane Gundrum, Rumors of War
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APA

splatter gun. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/splatter%20gun

MLA

“splatter gun.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/splatter%20gun. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “splatter gun,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/splatter%20gun.

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