Definitions

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  • adjective By or in terms of guns.
  • adverb By or in terms of guns.

Etymologies

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gun +‎ -wise

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Examples

  • Most people come to grief copwise/gunwise when they are pulled over for traffic violations or for speeding.

    On Cops and Guns 2008

  • And then the Martian beside us raised his tube on high and discharged it, gunwise, with a heavy report that made the ground heave.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • Martian beside us raised his tube on high and discharged it, gunwise, with a heavy report that made the ground heave.

    The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006

  • She held a small, beautifully worked handgun loosely beside her -- the twin-barrelled sporting Denton which gunwise citizens of the

    Legacy James H. Schmitz 1946

  • And then the Martian beside us raised his tube on high and discharged it, gunwise, with a heavy report that made the ground heave.

    The War of the Worlds 1906

  • And then the Martian beside us raised his tube on high and discharged it, gunwise, with a heavy report that made the ground heave.

    Chapter Fifteen: What Had Happened in Surrey Herbert George 1898

  • And then the Martian beside us raised his tube on high and discharged it, gunwise, with a heavy report that made the ground heave.

    The War of the Worlds Herbert George 1898

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