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scattergun

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scattergun/ˈskatəɡʌn/

▶noun

1 chiefly N. Amer. a shotgun.

2 (also scattershot) [as modifier] covering a broad range in a random and unsystematic way: the scattergun approach.

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