gunfire
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Meaning · English
Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade.
Register: slang
Where it’s used:
Used
American English
Examples
They had only in them the rolled mattresses, the neatly piled bed-boards and the empty tea-buckets of the orderly-men, empied of their last gun-fire.
Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).
Common questions
What does “gunfire” mean?
Tea, a cup of tea, especially one served early in the morning before first parade.
Is “gunfire” formal or informal?
gunfire is generally slang.