six-shooter
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of six-shooter
An Americanism dating back to 1835–45
Example Sentences
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Legends of pistol-packing preachers who trekked through the West with, as one of them said, “Bible in pocket, gun in hand” permanently joined evangelism to the six-shooter in some corners of the American imagination.
From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2021
Writing credits aside, this is a trademark Clash smash, full of outlaw rebel posturing and laden with Headon’s six-shooter drum cracks.
From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2020
He swiped to a photo of himself, at age seven or eight, wearing a homemade Superman cape, with a plastic six-shooter slung low around his waist.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2019
It's not as bad as that, in the end – she's still packing a six-shooter beneath her wedding dress.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2019
His signature was not the smoking six-shooter; instead, like Sherlock Holmes, he relied upon the startling powers of reason and deduction, the ability to observe what the Watsons of the world merely saw.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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