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peashooter
/ ˈpiːˌʃuːtə /
noun
- a tube through which pellets such as dried peas are blown, used as a toy weapon
Word History and Origins
Origin of peashooter1
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.
“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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