spring gun

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsset gun

   Broadergun

Questions about spring gun

What does spring gun mean?

spring 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 spring gun?

Close synonyms include set 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 spring gun a common word?

spring 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.