six-shooter
Example Sentences
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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
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
When they snatched him off the Greyhound, Washington had a paper sack holding Cowboy Clark’s pearl-handled six-shooter.
From New York Times • May 19, 2017
She blazed away like a six-shooter, hitting him with words.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
