Definition of shotgun
shotgun 
noun
- the passenger seat in a vehicle.
Origin: the American west (i.e. during the 1800s.) The "shotgun" was the
person that sat next to the driver of a wagon with a shotgun, watching for trouble.
I get shotgun!
I get to sit shotgun.
Submitted by Austin Wolf, CA, USA, Oct 04 1997.
Additions by Emily Marcroft, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, Jan 13 1998
- a method of smoking marijuana whereby one person inhales from the source and then blows the smoke into someone else's
mouth. They inhale it and the chain continues. The term can also apply to other forms of smoking (e.g. cigarettes) but this usage is more rare.
Submitted by Jon, Washington, DC, USA, Feb 21 1998.
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