where did the phrase ‘shotgun’ come from?
i’ve always heard in movies “I CALL SHOTGUN!!”, but what does it really mean? and where did it come from?
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Yelling, “I got shotgun!!” means you get dibs on the front passenger seat.
It comes from old West where they had stagecoaches. The driver had a guard that sat up on top of the stage next to him. Typically, the guard carried a shotgun.
And that is where the phrase came from, and what it means.
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In the old west, the man who sat next to the driver of the stagecoach always carried a shotgun (or a rifle) to defend against Indians or robbers.
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Darnit, he already told you.
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