stun gun

1. 1.

   a weapon designed to disable a victim temporarily by delivering a nonlethal high-voltage electric shock

   Synonymsstun baton

   Broaderweapon

Questions about stun gun

What does stun gun mean?

stun gun means "a weapon designed to disable a victim temporarily by delivering a nonlethal high-voltage electric shock".

What is another word for stun gun?

Close synonyms include stun baton. 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 stun gun a common word?

stun 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.