gunhappy

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English

Adjective

gunhappy (comparative more gunhappy, superlative most gunhappy)

  1. Alternative form of gun-happy
    • 1972, Ida Glenn Jeter, An Analysis of Selected Episodes of The Defenders, Television Series, 1961-1965:
      Dan takes "the view that no white woman, no matter who or why, has a right to go gunhappy today in a city ghetto and shoot down the first black man who comes near her."
    • 1988, F. H. Mikdadi, Tamra, page 196:
      “I'll be damned if I'm going to leave my house because of a few gunhappy thugs,' answered the woman laughing.
    • 1993, Cherokee Paul McDonald, Allen E. Smith, Under Contract/the True Account of a Cop Hired to Kill, page 244:
      I thought those pepper bellies in Miami were gunhappy.