stun-gun v.

to shoot with a stun gun n.

Weaponry

  • 1949 W. L. Bade Lost Ulysses in Astounding Science Fiction May 121/2 page image William L. Bade bibliography

    Ship guards poured out, stun-guns in their hands. The loudspeakers roared: ‘Stop this fighting! Throw down your weapons.’… The guards…stun-gunned anyone who resisted.

  • 1956 ‘J. Cary’ The Give-Away Worlds in Authentic Science Fiction Monthly Aug. 32/1 page image E. C. Tubb bibliography

    A couple of uniformed police stun-gunned a man and carried him out.

  • 1970 L. Carter Star Rogue 77 page image Lin Carter bibliography

    I didn’t feel like being stungunned again, so en route I had tinkered with my mindlock and made it opaque to the frequency of a neuronic weapon.

  • 1981 R. Goulart The Robot in the Closet 156 page image Ron Goulart bibliography

    ‘You stungunned some policemen?’ ‘Only five of them.’

  • 1992 W. Shatner TekLords 221 page image William Shatner bibliography

    Kneeling beside the big man he’d stungunned, he started searching him.

  • 2002 R. Goulart The Wake of the Crimson Hawk in B. M. Thomsen & M. H. Greenberg Oceans of Space 164 page image Ron Goulart bibliography

    ‘Let’s slip inside.’ Within the academy, after Silvera had stungunned two staff members, they located the Dean of the training school.

  • 2016 D. Weber Shadow of Victory xxx. 293 page image David Weber bibliography

    Her damned dog was the only survivor—the bastards just stun-gunned it!

Research requirements

antedating 1949
Earliest cite

W. L. Bade, in Astounding

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