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n. 1 A most highly rated gun shooter. 2 (context more generally English) Someone most highly rated.
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Top Gun is a 1986 American military action drama film directed by Tony Scott, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, in association with Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps, Jr., and was inspired by an article titled "Top Guns" published in California magazine three years earlier.
The film stars Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, and Tom Skerritt. Cruise plays Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a young Naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier . He and his Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (Edwards) are given the chance to train at the Navy's Fighter Weapons School at Miramar in San Diego.
In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Top Gun is the soundtrack from the film of the same name, released in 1986 by Columbia Records. In 1999, it was reissued in a Special Expanded Edition with additional songs. In 2006, it was reissued again in a Deluxe Edition with yet more songs. The album reached number one in the charts for five nonconsecutive weeks in the summer and autumn of 1986.
Top Gun is a 1986 film starring Tom Cruise.
Top Gun may also refer to:
Top Gun is a 1955 Western film about an ex-gunslinger ( Sterling Hayden) who arrives in a small town warning of an impending attack by his old gang. The film features Rod Taylor in one of his first American roles.
Usage examples of "top gun".
Ranger, Vinnie's top gun, had ambled in a couple minutes earlier at Vinnie's request.
Ranger, Vinnie s top gun, had ambled in a couple minutes earlier at Vinnie s request.
After the Cremator, Quinn had left the FBI, where he had been top gun among the M1i ndhunters.
Even at Top Gun after a long night of boilermakers, even Navy fighter pilots don't talk like this.
A middle-class kid, MacPherson had grown up in Lakewood, Colorado, graduated from Harvard, then joined the navy, went to Top Gun school and headed to Vietnam.
A CD was in place, and the room was instantly filled with the sound track from the movie, Top Gun, the song “.
Sergeant Knight came plummeting down from the top gun turret and began pounding them all on the back with delirious enthusiasm.