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thunderstick

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From thunder + stick. Originally used by or ascribed to members of non-European cultures or anthropomorphized animals describing firearms.

noun thundersticks · thunder-stick · thunder stick

A gun or cannon, especially a rifle, as seen from the imagined perspective of an uncivilized person or an animal. The man pointed his thunderstick at the buffalo, and with a great noise and fire, the buffalo fell down dead.
Similar: fire-stick
A narrow plastic balloon that is used as a promotional noise maker by hitting one against another. Called “James Tenney and Milton Babbitt : American Iconoclasts,” the mini-festival begins on Saturday with a work by Mr. Tenney, who died in 2006, on a program including pieces by Larry Polansky, Michael Byron and Henry Cowell (the 1925 “Ensemble” for string quartet and thundersticks). Mr. Babbitt i

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@misc{thunderstick_2026,
  title = {thunderstick},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/thunderstick},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}