scattergun Значение & определение

Значение на scattergun на български

• 0 a long gun that fires a large number of small metal bullets at one time, designed for shooting birds and animals :

  • You could shoot a scattergun there, and not hit a soul.

  • Because squirrels are small, a 12-bore scattergun isn't much use.

• 1 several things that seem to have no connection with each other :

  • He was incarcerated on a scattergun of charges.

  • The programme fired a scattergun of blame hitting US imports, reality TV, and the emergence of multichannel telly.

• 2 involving doing something to a lot of things or people without any organized plan, rather than doing it to particular things or people:

  • Don't have a scattergun approach - calling everyone you know to see if there is a job going - but work out what you want from different people.

  • Were you singled out by the advisor to receive the email - rather than just being hit randomly by a scattergun one?

  • The targets for this novel are as scattergun as the hilarious prose.

  • Such scattergun responses show only uncertainty, even among the experts.