grease gun

1. 1.

   a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine

   Synonymsgun

   Broaderpump

Questions about grease gun

What does grease gun mean?

grease gun means "a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine".

What is another word for grease gun?

Close synonyms include gun. 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 grease gun a common word?

grease gun is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.