a smooth-bore gun for firing small shot at short range, having a single barrel or two barrels

a group of men broke into the property armed with a shotgun

the front passenger seat in a vehicle

I took the shotgun seat

aimed at a wide range of things; having no specific target

many companies use the shotgun approach, aiming advertising at the widest possible audience

denoting a long, narrow single-storey house whose rooms are arranged one behind another

his family lived in a shotgun shack in South Memphis

shoot at or kill with a shotgun

he had been shotgunned by drug dealers

consume (a canned drink) in one go by puncturing the can, putting one’s mouth over the resulting hole, and then opening the can by means of the ring pull to produce a rapid flow

a group of us shotgunned beers