(idiomatic) An approach in which the subject is indiscriminate and haphazard, using breadth, spread, or quantity in lieu of accuracy, planning, etc.

(genetics) A DNA sequencing technique in which a large number of small fragments of a long DNA strand are generated at random, sequenced, and reassembled to form a sequence of the original strand.

plural of shotgun pleading

(law) A legal complaint or an answer to a complaint which sets forth an excessive number of facts with no clear organization, and then asserts that those facts describe a cause of action or a defense.

A narrow shack with a door at each end, common in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War until the 1920s.

(genetics) A laboratory method for the determining the identities of proteins in a mixture.

plural of shotgun marriage

(countable) A marriage beginning with (resulting from) a shotgun wedding. / (countable) A shotgun wedding itself. / (uncountable) Such marriages, or such weddings, taken collectively.

plural of shotgun wedding

plural of shotgun shack