peashooter

[ pee-shoo-ter ]
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noun
  1. a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.

Origin of peashooter

1
First recorded in 1860–65; pea1 + shooter

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How to use peashooter in a sentence

  • Like as not it would have hurt him as much as a peashooter might.

  • He didn't use his peashooter going home, and spoke very little.

    Ravenshoe | Henry Kingsley

British Dictionary definitions for peashooter

peashooter

/ (ˈpiːˌʃuːtə) /


noun
  1. a tube through which pellets such as dried peas are blown, used as a toy weapon

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