Other forms: gunshots
A gunshot is the firing of a gun, and the sound it makes. Hear a gunshot, a gunshot wound, three gunshots.
The sound is what witnesses report, and it is regularly mistaken for a firework, which is a real problem for emergency calls. A gunshot wound is the standard medical and legal term, often shortened to GSW.
1noungunshotThe firing of a gun, and the sound it makes.
“We heard a gunshot in the distance, and the birds flew up from the trees.”
gunshot is a sound.
Gun plus shot, in use since the sixteenth century.
From gun + shot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA