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Six-shooter

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A revolver which holds six cartridges. colloquial, dated

    "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—a pleasing fancy brought with him from Texas and the Cimarron."

  2. 2
    a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) wordnet

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