noun, verb
noun (plural cannon or cannons)
1 an old type of large heavy gun, usually on wheels, that fires solid metal or stone balls:
Three cannon opened fire. * a burst of cannon fire
seealsoLOOSECANNON, WATERCANNON
2 an AUTOMATIC gun that is fired from an aircraft
verb [V+adv./prep.] to hit sb/sth with a lot of force while you are moving:
He ran around the corner, cannoning into a group of kids.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for cannon is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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