Usually means: Offspring of a military firearm.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word son of a gun:

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  1. son of a gun: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. son of a gun: Merriam-Webster
  3. son of a gun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. son of a gun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. son of a gun: Collins English Dictionary
  6. son of a gun: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. son of a gun: Wiktionary
  8. son of a gun: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. son of a gun: Dictionary.com
  10. Son of a Gun (EP), Son of a Gun (JX song), Son of a Gun (film), Son of a gun (disambiguation), Son of a gun, The Son-of-a-Gun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. SON OF A GUN: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  12. Son of a Gun: The Word Detective
  13. SON OF A GUN: Ye Olde English Sayings
  14. son-of-a-gun, son of a gun: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Son of a gun: Phrase Finder

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Son of a gun, son of a gun: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (son of a gun)

▸ noun:  (euphemistic) son of a bitch
▸ noun:  Used encouragingly or to compliment.

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son of a snake, son of a duck, son-of-a-bitch, son of a jackal, son-of-a-gun stew, sonofabitch, sumbuck, sonuvabitch, sonovabitch, son of a whore, more...

Adjectives:
fooking, af, fucking, motherfucking, mf, bleeping, ffs, friggin, fricken, dtf, freaking

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son of a snake, son of a duck, son-of-a-bitch, son of a jackal, son-of-a-gun stew, sonofabitch, sumbuck, sonuvabitch, sonovabitch, son of a whore, more...

Adjectives:
fooking, af, fucking, motherfucking, mf, bleeping, ffs, friggin, fricken, dtf, freaking



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