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View synonyms for peashooter

peashooter

[ pee-shoo-ter ]

noun

  1. a tube through which dried peas, pea, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.


peashooter

/ ˈpiːˌʃuːtə /

noun

  1. a tube through which pellets such as dried peas are blown, used as a toy weapon
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of peashooter1

First recorded in 1860–65; pea 1 + shooter
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Example Sentences

By 1975, the Camaro’s strongest V-8 was a 155-horsepower peashooter.

“You don’t take a peashooter to a gunfight,” Keatinge said, expressing his dismay with the sanctions announced so far.

Other alleged pranks at the Caithness office had included putting ice down clothing, taping someone who had fallen asleep to his chair, placing tape on the beard of another colleague, pouring shredded paper over a member of staff, throwing papers and using a pen casing as a peashooter.

From BBC

“If you’re talking about fighting Covid and the Delta variant and winning this battle once and for all, a mask is like a peashooter and the vaccine is like a cannon,” the mayor said on Wednesday.

If you go hunting tigers, bring a gun capable of killing a tiger, not a peashooter.

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