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down the barrel of a gun idiom by someone using or threatening armed violence: It is not necessary to solve conflicts down the barrel of a gun. Their system of government is enforced down the barrel of a gun. He first took power down the barrel of a gun. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Violent or aggressive abusively aggressive aggressively aggressiveness aggro ferocity fierce fierceness fighting words flex proactive aggression pugnacious pugnaciously pugnacity punky vicious viciously viciousness violence warlike |