gunhappy

English

Adjective

gunhappy (comparative more gunhappy, superlative most gunhappy)

1. Alternative form of gun-happy
   • 1972, Ida Glenn Jeter, An Analysis of Selected Episodes of The Defenders, Television Series, 1961-1965:

     Dan takes "the view that no white woman, no matter who or why, has a right to go gunhappy today in a city ghetto and shoot down the first black man who comes near her."

   • 1988, F. H. Mikdadi, Tamra, page 196:

     “I'll be damned if I'm going to leave my house because of a few gunhappy thugs,' answered the woman laughing.

   • 1993, Cherokee Paul McDonald, Allen E. Smith, Under Contract/the True Account of a Cop Hired to Kill, page 244:

     I thought those pepper bellies in Miami were gunhappy.