elephant gun

noun

1. a gun of very large caliber, as .410 or greater, used in killing elephants or other big game.

elephant gun

noun

1. a gun used in the hunting of elephants
2. slang.
   a surfboard for riding large waves

Example Sentences

One poor fellow had his thigh smashed by a ball from an elephant gun, from which he afterwards died.

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I never woke up the whole camp by letting go an elephant gun at a jackal.

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They told of finding the camp abandoned by Mowbray, and the General showed the fragments of the broken elephant-gun.

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A moment later she tore free, but Jack's elephant-gun crashed out and she lay still.

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The elephant gun figured in still another tale, this time of a vicious rhinoceros.

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