popgun
Example Sentences
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In the background are the urban neighborhood street noises — sirens and what could have either been firecrackers or popguns, which add an ineffable tension.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2017
In Frankfurt, Germany, when U.S. occupation authorities ordered all civilian weapons turned in, law-abiding Bavarians came forward with 100 crossbows, darts, popguns.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the ingredients of a carnival are there: clowns, hucksters, mystics and assorted crazies�all sniping at each other with popguns in an atmosphere of distorted mirrors and colored lights.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides, popguns might add as much as six billion board feet to the total U.S. lumber supply.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sultan of Socotra is entitled to a salute of fourteen popguns and one catapult.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 by Various
