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revolver

noun as in firearm

Strong match

noun as in Saturday night special

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Assistant director Dave Halls reportedly told Baldwin the revolver was “cold,” meaning it did not have live rounds, before he shot Hutchins and director Joel Souza, who survived.

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The assistant director could only recall seeing three rounds when Gutierrez showed him the revolver before Baldwin rehearsed the scene.

We see a distraught Martin show Kate a family heirloom, an antique revolver that he indicates he plans to use on himself.

Paige Berhow, who retired as assistant police chief in the Ogden suburb of Riverdale and now lives in the city, became an officer in the early 1980s, when her on-duty equipment consisted of little more than a uniform and a revolver.

The city was quick to release a photo of a revolver the man was allegedly carrying and camera footage from a nearby business that appears to show a person raising an object before getting shot.

The cops gave chase and the gunman fired the big revolver twice more.

Peters qualified as an “expert” on the M16A1 in 1993 and the .38 revolver in 1995.

On November 4, 1928, someone put a revolver slug into Rothstein's body in Room 349 of the Park Central Hotel.

Gdenisku displays for me an old revolver equipped with rubber bullets; this is the only weapon he bears.

He orders a Smith Wesson .38 snub-​nosed revolver through the mail, using the same alias.

A look of passion came into the face of the watching boy, and again he fingered his revolver.

During this conversation Harry's right hand was resting beneath his jacket, grasping the butt of his revolver.

"So that is Jim Poindexter, the bloody villain," muttered the boy between his set teeth, and nervously fingering his revolver.

Frank loosened his sword from its fastenings and took a revolver in his left hand, in which he also held the reins.

Instantly Longcluse had used his revolver; but before he could make assurance doubly sure, his quick ear detected a step outside.

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On this page you'll find 106 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to revolver, such as: handgun, musket, pistol, rifle, shotgun, and weapon.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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