six-shooter

See also: sixshooter

English

Noun

six-shooter (plural six-shooters)

1. (colloquial, dated) A revolver which holds six cartridges.
   • 1979, Louis L'Amour, Bendigo Shafter, →ISBN, →OL:

     Five or six of them youngsters, weren’t but two of them upwards of twelve or thirteen, they outs with their six-shooters and had me covered.

Synonyms

• six-gun