peashooter
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See also: pea-shooter
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpiːˌʃuːtə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpiˌʃutəɹ/, [-ɾəɹ]
- Hyphenation: pea‧shoot‧er
Noun
[edit]peashooter (plural peashooters)
- A toy weapon consisting of a tube through which dried peas or small objects are blown.
- Synonyms: beanshooter, bean-shooter
- A person who uses such a device.
- (weaponry, slang) Any small or ineffective gun or weapon.
- 2012, Wayne Greenough, The Ferguson Murder, page 41:
- Compared to my forty-five, it's a toy. Christ, Thanet, why did you buy it in the first place? I would have given you one of mine, a real weapon, one with knock down power, compared to that peashooter on your hip.
Alternative forms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]toy weapon
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person who uses such a device
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small or ineffective gun or weapon
References
[edit]- ^ “pea-shooter, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “pea-shooter, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]- peashooter (toy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- peashooter (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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