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shotgun house
noun
Definition of SHOTGUN HOUSE
: a house in which all the rooms are in direct line with each other usually front to back —called also shotgun cottage, shotgun shack — compare railroad flat
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First Known Use of SHOTGUN HOUSE
1903
Rhymes with SHOTGUN HOUSE
barrelhouse, bawdy house, boardinghouse, body louse, cat and mouse, clearinghouse, coffeehouse, countinghouse, country house, customhouse, halfway house, house-to-house, jumping mouse, kilogauss, Lévi-Strauss, manor house, meetinghouse, Mickey Mouse, milligauss, motherhouse, on the house, open house, opera house, overblouse, packinghouse, pilothouse, pocket mouse, porterhouse, powerhouse, slaughterhouse, sporting house, station house, sucking louse, sugarhouse, summerhouse, tiring-house, tower house, treasure-house, Westinghouse
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