gunner

From Middle English gonner; equivalent to gun +‎ -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌn.ɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʌn.ə(ɹ)/
• Homophone: gonna (non-rhotic, based on the /ˈɡʌn.ə/ pronunciation)

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ʌnə(ɹ)

gunner (plural gunners)

1. (military) An artillery soldier, especially one who holds private rank.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) gnr

2. A person who operates a gun.
3. (figuratively) An excessive go-getter; one exhibiting over-ambition.
4. (American football) A player on the kicking team whose primary job is to tackle the kickoff returner or punt returner.
5. (UK, slang, soccer) A fan of the Arsenal Football Club.
6. The great northern diver or loon.
7. (UK, Ireland, dialect) The sea bream, especially Pagellus bogaraveo (blackspot sea bream)
8. (basketball) A player who can reliably shoot baskets.

In the literal sense, "gunner" almost always refers to someone manning a mounted or crew-served weapon, rather than a long gun or handgun.

• Cebuano: gunner

gunner

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of gonna.

Reborrowing from Cebuano gunner, ultimately from English gunner.

gunner (plural gunners)

1. (regional, Cebu, slang) The person designated to pour drinks in a drinking session.

From shot (“a measure of alcohol”); the doer of a shot is a shooter, a gunner is a shooter.

gunner

1. the person designated to pour drinks in a drinking session

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:gunner.

• → English: gunner

• goner, gonner, gunnare, gownere

From gunne +‎ -er; compare Medieval Latin gunnārius.

• IPA^(key): /ɡuˈneːr/, /ˈɡunər/

gunner (plural gunners) (Late Middle English)

1. An operator of a cannon; an artilleryman.
2. An operator of a siege engine.
3. A maker of guns or cannons.

• English: gunner
• Scots: gunner
• → Medieval Latin: gunnārius

• “gǒnner, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 July 2018.

gunner m or f by sense (plural gunners)

1. Gunner (someone associated with Arsenal Football Club)