Take a break and watch an old cowboy movie. On the stage coaches that ran across the west there was a driver and a man that rode shotgun. Ho sat up top next to the driver and carried a shotgun to protect the stage coach from being robbed. That is where we get the term "ridding shotgun." Up front next to the driver as opposed to the back seat or inside the coach.
in the 1800s, the passenger would carry a shotgun to prevent robberies
Lots of people use the term shotgun as a reference to ride in the front passenger seat. It is a game that we play when multiple people are riding in a car and are not the driver.
front passenger seat. Also known for the passenger as "riding shotgun".
If you call out shotgun it means you get the front passanger seat in the vehicle.
Open the door, and sit beside the driver in the passenger seat
If you call out shotgun it means you get the front passanger seat in the vehicle.
ShotgunIf a driver says someone gets shotgun, he/she means that they get the front passenger seat.
"Riding shotgun" means sitting in the front seat of a car. Before a car journey, if you are quick, you can call shotgun and you get to sit in the front seat.
"I call shotgun" means that you call the seat next to the driver in a car. This originates from the Old West, where the man beside the driver guarded the coach with a shotgun.
They would call him simply the shotgun rider in old western times if it had valuable cargo based on the shotgun usually carried by this person. That's where the term "riding shotgun" came from when referring to passenger seat in a car besides the driver.
It's called a 'passenger seat' .
"Shotgun" means the passenger side.