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Hyphenation for “shotgun”

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What is the correct hyphenation for “shotgun”? The purpose of hyphenation is to separate a word such as "shotgun" because otherwise it would be too long and would no longer fit on one line. This separation not only saves space it improves the visually flow of the text. This word separation exists in most languages. In English, the word separation of “shotgun” is based on the speech syllables. The separating syllable in linguistics is therefore the smallest group of sounds in the natural flow of speech. As a separator, the classic hyphen is usually used: „shotgun“ ⟶ „shot-gun“.

Hyphens are occasionally used to denote syllabification, as in syl-la-bi-fi-ca-tion. Various British and North American dictionaries use an interpunct, sometimes called a "middle dot" or "hyphenation point", for this purpose, as in syl·la·bi·fi·ca·tion. This allows the hyphen to be reserved only for places where a hard hyphen is intended (for example, self-con·scious, un·self-con·scious, long-stand·ing). Similarly, hyphens may be used to indicate how a word is being or should be spelled. For example, W-O-R-D spells "word".

Definitions of "shotgun"

shotgun >> ˈʃɒtɡʌn

Definition: [noun] a smooth-bore gun for firing small shot at short range.

Synonyms of "shotgun"

Definition: [noun] the front passenger seat in a vehicle.
Example: I took the shotgun seat

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Definition: [adjective] aimed at a wide range of things; having no specific target.
Example: many companies use the shotgun approach, aiming advertising at the widest possible audience

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Definition: [adjective] denoting a long, narrow single-storey house whose rooms are arranged one behind another.
Example: his family lived in a shotgun shack in South Memphis

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Definition: [verb] shoot at or kill with a shotgun.
Example: he had been shotgunned by drug dealers

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Definition: [verb] consume (a canned drink) in one go by puncturing the can, putting one’s mouth over the resulting hole, and then opening the can by means of the ring pull to produce a rapid flow.
Example: a group of us shotgunned beers

Synonyms of "shotgun"