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six-gun

[ siks-guhn ]

noun

  1. a six-shooter.


six-gun

noun

  1. informal.
    another word for six-shooter
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of six-gun1

First recorded in 1910–15
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Example Sentences

I've lived all my life with iron on the hip, and my six-gun has seven notches.

Lad, even a kid like you could be a killer with that six-gun.

She had laid aside her six-gun, but she had not abandoned it.

As the daylight increased, there was little doubt of her character, and she was pronounced to be a thirty-six-gun frigate.

With no room even for six-gun work he turned his revolver into a club.

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