gun microphone

1. 1.

   a highly directional microphone with a long barrel; can be directed from a distance

   Synonymsshotgun microphonegun mikeshotgun mike

   Broaderdirectional microphone

Questions about gun microphone

What does gun microphone mean?

gun microphone means "a highly directional microphone with a long barrel; can be directed from a distance".

What is another word for gun microphone?

Close synonyms include shotgun microphone, gun mike, shotgun mike. 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 gun microphone a common word?

gun microphone 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.