staplegun

1. 1.

   a hand-held machine for driving staples home

   Synonymsstaple guntacker

   Broadermachine

Other forms of staplegun

plural

stapleguns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about staplegun

What does staplegun mean?

staplegun means "a hand-held machine for driving staples home".

How many syllables are in staplegun?

staplegun has 3 syllables: sta-ple-gun. The stress falls on "sta".

What is another word for staplegun?

Close synonyms include staple gun, tacker. 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 staplegun a common word?

staplegun 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.