Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shooting an elephant with a bb gun

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English

Syllables
shoot-ing an ele-phan-t with- a b-b -gun
IPA
48
Scrabble Score
28
Letters
7
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of shoot an elephant with a BB gun

Questions

What does shooting an elephant with a bb gun mean?
present participle and gerund of shoot an elephant with a BB gun

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