set gun

1. 1.

   a gun that is set to fire on any intruder that comes in contact with the wire that sets it off

   Synonymsspring gun

   Broadergun

Questions about set gun

What does set gun mean?

set gun means "a gun that is set to fire on any intruder that comes in contact with the wire that sets it off".

What is another word for set gun?

Close synonyms include spring 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 set gun a common word?

set 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.