six-shooter
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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
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
Just as not everyone in the US walks around clinking their boot spurs while twirling their six-shooter, it’s also not true that American stadiums don’t have their share of hooligans.
From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2017
The Marine gripped his six-shooter, pointed it at the horizon and took a deep breath.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2017
When it come out, it was gripped ’round his six-shooter.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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