run and gun

Language: en

Meaning: (basketball,oftenattributive)To move the ball quickly and shoot often.This team likes torun and gun.They're reallyrunning and gunningnow.This coach likes to play arun-and-gunoffense.; (idiomatic)Todosomethinghastilyand with greatenergy.2016March 4, Drew Grant, “‘Animals.’ Creators Mike Luciano and Phil Matarese on Making a D.I.Y. Cartoon for HBO”, inObserver‎[1]:It has this sort of impulsiveness to it: “One and done.” We do full, A-story episodes in one chunk. For episode six we had Lauren Lapkus, Horatio Sanz, Mitch Hurwitz, me, Mike and Meghan O’Neill in the studio for four hours…we can’t get those people back! So we have torun and gunit.2019October 28, Hannah Sampson, “Inside the creation of travel-worthy haunted houses”, inThe Washington Post‎[2]:“We used to justrun and gunit,” he says. “Now that we’ve gotten bigger and things got more expensive and we need to kind of up the ante, there’s a lot more production time that goes into it.”

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