gunning
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English
Verb
gunning
- present participle and gerund of gun
Noun
gunning (plural gunnings)
- The act of firing a gun.
- 2011, Gary Ferraro, Susan Andreatta, Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, page 112:
- Philippe Bourgois […] witnessed shootings, muggings, bombings, machine-gunnings, fire bombings, and numerous fistfights, and he was manhandled by New York City police who mistook him for a drug dealer.
Dutch
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Noun
gunning f (plural gunningen)
- the act of awarding or allocating a project to a bidder