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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gunman
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lone gunman
▪ a lone gunman
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dead
▪ The names of the deputy and the dead gunman were not released.
▪ In Medellin, two employees of the El Espectador newspaper were shot dead by gunmen.
▪ Three protestors supporting President Gamsakhurdia have been shot dead by gunmen in Tblisi.
lone
▪ But even proponents of the lone gunman theory acknowledge the wealth of interests served by Kabila's removal.
▪ A lone gunman with an apparent grudge can do great harm.
▪ Suddenly, a lone gunman appeared.
▪ Did lone gunmen commit both murders, as initial investigations concluded?
▪ So much for the lone gunman theory.
loyalist
▪ Mr Gallagher, a SinnFein member, was the first of six men murdered by loyalist gunmen in the past two days.
▪ If the security forces are thick on the ground and loyalist gunmen commit murder it is the result of collusion.
▪ Retaliation by loyalist gunmen must be avoided at all costs.
unidentified
▪ The unidentified gunmen have demanded a £1.2m ransom, he said.
■ VERB
kill
▪ Another journalist, the Batman-based correspondent of the Yeni Ulke newspaper, was killed by gunmen on Feb. 24.
▪ Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war.
▪ Police speculated that they had been killed by the same gunmen.
▪ Stormed Earlier, in Soweto township, south-west of Johannesburg, four people were killed when gunmen stormed into a taxi-association meeting.
▪ La Tribune and Le Matin said security forces later in the day had killed all the gunmen responsible.
▪ The children were killed when masked gunmen opened fire on the minibus taking them to school.
▪ Victims of the intensifying violence included two nephews of Mandela killed by gunmen at their home in Soweto on May 3.
shoot
▪ Lima was shot by two gunmen on a motorcycle which approached his car in Mondello, near Palermo, Sicily.
▪ He initially told police he had been walking down the street when he was shot by an unknown gunman.
▪ In Medellin, two employees of the El Espectador newspaper were shot dead by gunmen.
▪ Three protestors supporting President Gamsakhurdia have been shot dead by gunmen in Tblisi.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Hooded gunmen burst into a home in Lima on Sunday and shot to death at least 15 people.
▪ Two gunmen opened fire on a bus taking children to school.
▪ Was President Kennedy killed by a lone gunman, or was there a conspiracy?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Four died when gunmen opened fire on a pick-up truck loaded with people near Port Shepstone in southern Natal.
▪ He even found himself liking the gunman in an abstract way, despite Gomez's future role as his executioner.
▪ In general, most famous Western gunmen were town people.
▪ In Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, gunmen reportedly seized 30 workers at an electrical power plant.
▪ Mr Gallagher, a SinnFein member, was the first of six men murdered by loyalist gunmen in the past two days.
▪ Poole finally abandoned Cassidy when a gunman opened fire from the window of a nearby hotel.
▪ She flung herself at the gunman, who was then felled by police fire.
▪ They were shot by one or more gunmen ostensibly delivering a painting, business people said.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gunman

1620s, from gun (n.) + man (n.). In early American English use, especially of Indian warriors.

Wiktionary
gunman

n. A (usually male) criminal armed with a gun, especially a professional killer.

Related phrases:
WordNet
gunman

  1. n. a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter]

  2. a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) [syn: gun]

Wikipedia
Gunman (film)

Gunman (, or Mue puen, also known as The Sister-in-Law) is a 1983 Thai crime film directed by Chatrichalerm Yukol and starring Sorapong Chatree as an amputee assassin.

Gunman (187 Lockdown song)

"Gunman" is the debut single by English speed garage duo 187 Lockdown. The song was released twice, first in November 1997 where it reached #16 on the UK Singles Chart, then again the following year, peaking one place lower at #17.

The song contains samples of Ennio Morricone's "Sixty Seconds To What" (from the film For a Few Dollars More), and a vocal sample from Dr Alimantado's "Gimmie Mi Gun".

Gunman

Gunman or Gunmen may refer to:

  • A word sometimes used to describe a criminal, armed with a gun
  • A word used to call a gunfighter before the 20th Century
  • Gunman (film), a 1983 Thai crime film directed by Chatrichalerm Yukol
  • Gunmen (1988 film), a 1988 Hong Kong action crime drama film
  • Gunmen (1994 film), a 1994 action-comedy film directed by Deran Sarafian
  • "Gunman" (187 Lockdown song), a 1997 song by speed garage duo 187 Lockdown
  • "Gunman" (Funker Vogt song), a 2000 song by aggrotech band Funker Vogt
  • Gunman Chronicles, a 2000 computer game by Rewolf Software
  • The Gunman (film), a 2015 American thriller film directed by Pierre Morel

Usage examples of "gunman".

If Anthony Bailor was the person under guard in a hospital, then it was likely that he had been the gunman who had aimed at me, shot Mercer, and killed the young receptionist in Chelsea on Sunday.

Back at the fire, the gunmen were still waiting to mow de Bono down should he re-emerge.

Three men, Tony Calva, Cokey Raiss, and the white-faced gunman, were sitting at the table.

When a never-identified gunman, probably Communist or Guajiro, had murdered Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, all of Colombia rose against the syndicates.

Sooty roof to scaffold platform, Jilly folded in to the church with the expectation of finding the third gunman and kicking him in the head, the gut, the gonads, or any other kickable surface that might be presented to her.

Jilly folded in to the church with the expectation of finding the third gunman and kicking him in the head, the gut, the gonads, or any other kickable surface that might be presented to her.

Then there were gunshots coming from the other side of the terminal and from the overhanging mezzanine, and the Oriental gunmen were hit.

In conclusion, we believe that gunmen employed by Mickey Cohen perpetrated the Nite Owl Massacre, a kill-six-to-get-one ruse undertaken out of his hatred for Duke Cathcart.

As the time went by, Noone swiveled his head back and forth, apparently fearing that the gunman, if not in the car he had seen speeding away, might still be around.

When the gunman rounded the corner, Qazi shot him three times with the Walther before he hit the floor.

Bleys in person only at rare intervals in his own life, beginning with the time of the murder of his tutors and his own near capture by Bleys and his gunmen.

Arnold Rowland saw the gunman 15 minutes before the motorcade arrived at the plaza.

The standard Pistolero hit involved two men - a driver and a gunman - and a motorcycle.

The gunman, having shot Dawn Spenser, had evidently gone to search the place.

Barney and Old Jimmie took you away to begin your new career--the same night that I ran away from those gunmen who thought I was a squealer, and from Casey and Gavegan.