air gun

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   a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air

   Synonymsairgunair rifle

   Broadergun

   NarrowerBB gunpaintball gun

Questions about air gun

What does air gun mean?

air gun means "a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air".

What is another word for air gun?

Close synonyms include airgun, air rifle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is air gun a common word?

air gun is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.