six-shooter

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six-shooter

noun six-shooters

  1. colloquial, dated A revolver which holds six cartridges. He drank a quart of whisky a day; was almost never drunk, but on rare occasions when the liquor fumes bested him he would invariably select a hapless victim and, whipping out the pair of mother-o’-pearl-handled six-shooters he always wore at his belt, would force him to dance by shooting at his feet

    Similar: six-gun

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@misc{six_shooter_2026,
  title = {six-shooter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/six-shooter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}