Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word GUNNER

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Definitions of GUNNER

1. A person who operates a gun.
2. The great northern diver or loon.
3. (soccer) someone connected with Arsenal Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
4. A surname.
5. (military rank) An artillery soldier, especially one who holds private rank.
6. (figuratively) An excessive go-getter; one exhibiting over-ambition.
7. (American football) A player on the kicking team whose primary job is to tackle the kickoff returner or punt returner.
8. (UK, slang, soccer) A fan of the Arsenal Football Club.
9. (UK, Ireland, dialect) The sea bream, especially Pagellus bogaraveo (blackspot sea bream)
10. (basketball) A player who can reliably shoot baskets.
11. (rare) Alternative spelling of gonna.
12. (regional, Cebu, slang) The person designated to pour drinks in a drinking session.

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Examples of Using GUNNER in a Sentence

• "Soldiers" may be referred to by titles, names, nicknames, or acronyms that reflect an individual's military occupation specialty arm, service, or branch of military employment, their type of unit, or operational employment or technical use such as: trooper, tanker (a member of tank crew), commando, dragoon, infantryman, guardsman, artilleryman, paratrooper, grenadier, ranger, sniper, engineer, sapper, craftsman, signaller, medic, rifleman, or gunner, among other terms.
• Colin Cantwell, who also designed the saga's TIE fighters, initially designed the Y-wing with a large bubble turret for a gunner.
• As of right now Gunner Bridgers,Aiden Johnson,and Kai Sobey are carrying the JV Football team with Gunner having an average of 11 touch downs per game and is being looked at by clemson Aiden throws about 20 touchdowns per game and Kai gets 15 touchdowns per game and is being looked at by LSU.
• During the war, further books were published, including Wreckers Must Breathe (1940), The Trojan Horse (1940) and Attack Alarm (1941), the last of which was based on his experiences as an anti-aircraft gunner during the Battle of Britain at RAF Kenley.
• During World War II, Fairchild produced PT-19/PT-23/PT-26 (Cornell) and AT-21 Gunner trainers, C-82 Packet transports and drones.
• During World War II, Miller served as a radioman and tail gunner in a bomber crew that participated in the destruction of the 6th-century Christian monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy, founded by St.
• His father, Michel-François Littré, had been a gunner and, later, a sergeant-major of marine artillery in the French navy who was deeply imbued with revolutionary ideas of the day.
• His most famous compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner".
• Bob Glaub – bass guitar on "Roland the Headless Gunner", "Excitable Boy" and "Nighttime in the Switching Yard".
• Don Estelle (22 May 1933 – 2 August 2003) was an English actor and singer, best known as Gunner "Lofty" Sugden in It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
• In 1975, a recording of "Whispering Grass" performed by Don Estelle and Windsor Davies in character as Gunner "Lofty" Sugden and Sergeant Major Williams (respectively), reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and remained there for three weeks.
• However, five Mitsubishi A6M Zeros brought his aircraft down in a hail of machine-gun and cannon fire, killing his rear gunner.
• The missiles are usually equipped with a magnesium flare in the base that automatically ignites on launch and allows the gunner to visually track the fast-moving missile in a manner similar in concept to tracer ammunition.
• In Strike From Space (1965), Schlafly wrote that during World War II, she worked as "a ballistics gunner and technician at the largest ammunition plant in the world".
• The gunner or commander, in addition to his own duties, had to act as loader for the 2-pounder, which caused delays in combat; a report on the tank written in January 1941 stated that since the commander had both to fight and control the tank, controlling a troop of Tetrarchs during combat would be almost impossible.
• More accepted theories credit either Sergeant Cedric Popkin (Australian 24th Machine Gun Company), Gunner Snowy Evans or Gunner Robert Buie (both of 53rd Battery, 14th Field Artillery Brigade, RAA) with the kill.
• In 1681, King Charles II visited the Warren and observed Richard Leake, Master Gunner of England, conduct an experiment with fire-shot in the proof butts.
• The 12 rounds available in the drum magazines meant that the crew could engage targets quickly; however, once those rounds were expended, the vehicle commander and gunner could either manually refill them from within the turret or retreat to cover and reload shells from outside the vehicle through hatches above.
• The generic term of loophole is gradually abandoned because of its imprecision, in favour of those more precise of archer, crossbowman, gunner archer.
• In order to minimise the aircraft's cross-section as a target for the gunner and improve the pilot's resistance to G-forces, he would lie in the prone position since a 1940 study using centrifuges had estimated an increase from 5Gs to 12Gs.
• When Nora and Hank arrive, the younger children plan to make Hank the target of their prank by soaking his underwear in meat and assisting the Bakers' pet dog Gunner to attack him by biting his buttocks, prompting him to refuse to assist in babysitting.
• In 1945, whilst serving in Glory, he wrote the poem 'The Song of the Dying Gunner AA1' He published two further poems about the ship and this period: 'HMS Glory (a description, in the ship's personified own 'voice', of Belfast and of its departure from that city for the Far East) and 'HMS Glory at Sydney' (a longer piece from the writer's own perspective reminiscing about his experience of the ship's spell in Australia, and his shipmates).
• The much faster V-1 was overtaking the Avenger when the Telegraphist Air Gunner in the dorsal turret, Leading Airman Fred Shirmer, fired at it from.
• Wartime experience showed that pilots could aim bombs and torpedoes without assistance from other crewmembers as well as navigate with the aid of radio beacons, and the development of more powerful engines meant that faster aircraft no longer needed a rear gunner for self-defense.
• As the gunner began to point the barrel toward the water, as per standard procedure, the round cooked-off, (thermally induced firing) and struck Missouri on the signal bridge, killing Coxswain Robert Fountain and starting a fire involving an acetylene tank lashed to the railings.

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