Gunman
noun
A man who is skilled in using a gun or whose job is to carry a gun.
The police are in a standoff with an armed gunman.
Often appears as...
- armed gunman
- lone gunman
noun
A criminal who uses a gun during the crime.
The bank was robbed by two gunmen.
Often appears as...
- masked gunman
- unidentified gunman
noun
A man who is skilled in using a gun or whose job is to carry a gun.
The police are in a standoff with an armed gunman.
Often appears as...
- armed gunman
- lone gunman
noun
A criminal who uses a gun during the crime.
The bank was robbed by two gunmen.
Often appears as...
- masked gunman
- unidentified gunman
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Pro Tip 1/3Not Always Violent
The term 'gunman' does not always imply violence. It can refer to someone proficient with guns.
In the movie, the gunman was the hero's protector.
Pro Tip 2/3Occupational Use
'Gunman' can denote a professional role, such as in security or military.
The celebrity was followed by a gunman for safety.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Imagery
In Western films, 'gunman' often depicts a quintessential cowboy or outlaw.
The old western featured a showdown between two gunmen.
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The politics of fiction...
And I should know, because during the time I attended that school, a military takeover happened in my country, a gunman of my nationality nearly killed the Pope, and Turkey got zero points in Eurovision Song Contest. I skipped school often and dreamed of becoming a sailor during those days.
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Shea Hembrey: How I...
And she was thinking about her friends and family who work in chaos-ridden places and developing countries, and she was thinking, what can I make that would be of value to them, in case something bad happens and they have to buy their way across the border or pay off a gunman?
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Windows of the Soul: My...
a gunman attack a feeding center and there was just nothing I could do though I mean you know they just did what they wanted to do it was a very ruthless ruthless world where you could die for anything any reason at all this child was completely alone I mean there was
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Shootout in the Streets...
surrounded they're gonna drop the money drop the gun put their hands up and give up inside the bank the manager fears for his life and opens the vault but there's hardly the amount of money the gunmen expect now he's neither the more aggressive saying
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The New Son of God PIPE...
gunmen days after he refused to sell his land to people she said were connected to the kingdom kibbeh Lloyd dismissed the claims was totally false and baseless many of those detractors of ours you know sometimes pick up some of
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Should “blackness”...
head don't say one word he said sir I put off driving all car while I'm begging in the lab me going every so often I got the gonna smack me upside my head and threatened to kill me I recognized the voice of the gunman is
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Al-Qaeda Hostages PIPE...
he obviously had to find what to do with us he couldn't do it from the house and it wasn't long after that another car drove out for four gunmen got out I was so much afraid again I was with a group
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Gangster Gunplay PIPE...
after months of searching for Burke police came up with nothing but in December Burt found them in st. Joe Michigan after a routine traffic accident he overreacted there's only a mod gunman
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Earth Day Eve 2021 PIPE...
Were you there yesterday When the gunman shoot men down No retreat No surrender He can push you no fall down Many come, many go We're not asleep, we're there for all We come in peace
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Hollywood Shootout PIPE...
available ambulance they fear multiple casualties it's exactly eight minutes since the start of the robbery time for the gunman to make their
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The politics of fiction...
And I should know, because during the time I attended that school, a military takeover happened in my country, a gunman of my nationality nearly killed the Pope, and Turkey got zero points in Eurovision Song Contest. I skipped school often and dreamed of becoming a sailor during those days.
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Shea Hembrey: How I...
And she was thinking about her friends and family who work in chaos-ridden places and developing countries, and she was thinking, what can I make that would be of value to them, in case something bad happens and they have to buy their way across the border or pay off a gunman?
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Windows of the Soul: My...
a gunman attack a feeding center and there was just nothing I could do though I mean you know they just did what they wanted to do it was a very ruthless ruthless world where you could die for anything any reason at all this child was completely alone I mean there was
Video examples
Shootout in the Streets...
surrounded they're gonna drop the money drop the gun put their hands up and give up inside the bank the manager fears for his life and opens the vault but there's hardly the amount of money the gunmen expect now he's neither the more aggressive saying
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The New Son of God PIPE...
gunmen days after he refused to sell his land to people she said were connected to the kingdom kibbeh Lloyd dismissed the claims was totally false and baseless many of those detractors of ours you know sometimes pick up some of
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Should “blackness”...
head don't say one word he said sir I put off driving all car while I'm begging in the lab me going every so often I got the gonna smack me upside my head and threatened to kill me I recognized the voice of the gunman is
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Al-Qaeda Hostages PIPE...
he obviously had to find what to do with us he couldn't do it from the house and it wasn't long after that another car drove out for four gunmen got out I was so much afraid again I was with a group
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Gangster Gunplay PIPE...
after months of searching for Burke police came up with nothing but in December Burt found them in st. Joe Michigan after a routine traffic accident he overreacted there's only a mod gunman
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Earth Day Eve 2021 PIPE...
Were you there yesterday When the gunman shoot men down No retreat No surrender He can push you no fall down Many come, many go We're not asleep, we're there for all We come in peace
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Hollywood Shootout PIPE...
available ambulance they fear multiple casualties it's exactly eight minutes since the start of the robbery time for the gunman to make their
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Bill Dedman
American Journalist
After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.
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Curtis Sliwa
American Celebrity
I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.
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Marcus Luttrell
American Soldier
I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.
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Kim Jee-woon
South Korean Director
The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.
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James Comey
American Public Servant
I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.
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Anand Gopal
Journalist
In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank.
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Jeff Greenfield
American Journalist
The Supreme Being I would sign up for would not prove his omnipotence by saving one life while ending dozens, or hundreds, or thousands. Nor would he summon an angel to heaven by ending a first grader's life at the hands of a gunman or sadist.
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Buffalo Bill
American Celebrity
Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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Mary Doria Russell
American Writer
The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.
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Ken MacLeod
Scottish Writer
The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.
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Bill Dedman
American Journalist
After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.
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Curtis Sliwa
American Celebrity
I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.
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Marcus Luttrell
American Soldier
I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.
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Kim Jee-woon
South Korean Director
The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.
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James Comey
American Public Servant
I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.
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Anand Gopal
Journalist
In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank.
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Jeff Greenfield
American Journalist
The Supreme Being I would sign up for would not prove his omnipotence by saving one life while ending dozens, or hundreds, or thousands. Nor would he summon an angel to heaven by ending a first grader's life at the hands of a gunman or sadist.
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Buffalo Bill
American Celebrity
Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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Mary Doria Russell
American Writer
The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate.
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Ken MacLeod
Scottish Writer
The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.
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