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six-gun — six′ gun n. mil six shooter • Etymology: 1910–15 … From formal English to slang
Six Gun — A Six Gun is a hand held gun, or pistol, with a rotating cylinder that holds six bullets. The cylinder in a six gun is often called a wheel , and the six gun is itself often called a wheel gun . The classic six gun was commonly carried by Old… … Wikipedia
six-gun — noun a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) • Syn: ↑revolver, ↑six shooter • Hypernyms: ↑pistol, ↑handgun, ↑side arm, ↑shooting iron • Hyponyms … Useful english dictionary
six-gun — /siks gun /, n. a six shooter. [1910 15] * * * … Universalium
six-gun — noun another term for six shooter … English new terms dictionary
six-gun — noun Date: 1912 a 6 chambered revolver … New Collegiate Dictionary
Doctor Six-Gun — was an NBC western radio drama that ran for sixty episodes between September 1954 and October 1955. Overview Doctor Gray Matson, played by Karl Weber, is a frontier physician based in a small western town in the 1870s called Frenchman s Ford. The … Wikipedia
six-shooter — ☆ six shooter [sikssho͞ot΄ər ] n. Informal a revolver having a cylinder that holds six cartridges; specif., such a revolver with a long barrel and of relatively large caliber of the kind usually used in the western U.S. in the last half of the… … English World dictionary
gun — Synonyms and related words: AA gun, Armstrong, BAR, BB gun, Benet Mercie, Beretta, Big Bertha, Bren, Bren gun, Browning, Cain, Colt, Garand, Garand rifle, Garling, Gatling, Gatling gun, Hotchkiss, Krupp, Lancaster, Lee Enfield, Lee Metford, Lewis … Moby Thesaurus
six shooter — Synonyms and related words: AA gun, BAR, BB gun, Big Bertha, Bren, Bren gun, Garand, Garand rifle, Gatling gun, Lewis gun, Long Tom, Thompson submachine gun, Y gun, air gun, antiaircraft gun, antitank gun, antitank rifle, arquebus, atom gun,… … Moby Thesaurus
