Noun
stun gun (plural stun guns)
- A weapon intended to immobilize, usually through delivery of an electric shock.
1946 November, Mark Champion, “Unforeseen”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 38, number 3, page 42:Lodner tossed the stun gun on a flange between the stills and the fluxing panels.
1978 January, “The Official Moonbase Alpha Technical Notebook (advert)”, in Starlog, volume 2, number 11, page 9:The removable pages are organized in strict military fashion and include complete data on the Commlock, Stun Gun, Laser Cannon, Communications Post, Uniforms, and several fold-out blueprints of the various levels and areas of Moonbase Alpha.
2014 March 8, “Manchester police seize stun gun disguised as iPhone”, in BBC News:A stun gun disguised as a mobile phone has been seized from a 14-year-old boy in Manchester.
Translations
weapon intended to immobilize
- Arabic: صَاعِق m (ṣāʕiq)
- Belarusian: электрашо́кер m (eljektrašókjer)
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 電擊槍/电击枪 (diànjīqiāng)
- Esperanto: elektroŝoka armilo
- Finnish: etälamautin (fi), tyrmäysase
- French: foudroyeur (fr) m, taser (fr) m
- German: Elektroschocker (de) m
- Hindi: अचेत बंदूक (acet bandūk)
- Hungarian: sokkoló (hu)
- Icelandic: rafbyssa f
- Japanese: スタンガン (sutan gan)
- Korean: 전기 충격기(電氣衝擊機) (jeon'gi chunggyeokgi)
- Russian: электрошо́кер (ru) m (elektrošóker), та́зер (ru) m (tázer)
- Spanish: pistola paralizante f
- Ukrainian: електрошо́кер m (elektrošóker)
- Vietnamese: súng gây choáng
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