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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person; a fellow: That son of a gun knows how to sell cars and sell them well.
  2. n. A rascal; a scamp: That son of gun is always playing practical jokes.
  3. interj. Used to express annoyance, disappointment, or surprise.

Wiktionary

  1. n. euphemistic son of a bitch

Etymologies

  1. The U.S. Navy publication Nomenclature of Ships (John Snelling, 1981) describes the origin of this phrase as follows: (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “The son of a gun lifts it twelve times, and a huge grin rushes across his beet-red face.”

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  • gangerh Never daughter of a gun? Jun 22, 2008

  • johnmperry Derived from the days when women were allowed to live in naval ships. The ‘son-of-a-gun’ was one born in a ship, often in the greater space near the midship gun, behind a canvas screen. If paternity was uncertain, the child was entered in the ship’s log as a “Son-of-a-gun.�? Jun 22, 2008

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