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View definitions for pellet gun

pellet gun

noun as in air gun

noun as in BB gun

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The neighbor, who declined to give her name, cited instances in which he allegedly shot her chickens with “a high-powered pellet gun.”

Several former Watermark employees who requested anonymity alleged that if, for instance, a guard was barred from carrying a firearm due to their work status, the company would supply a realistic-looking pellet gun, or instruct them to wear a heavy jacket and tell store workers they were carrying a concealed weapon underneath it.

We were sleeping, and he had decided to go to purchase a high-powered pellet gun.

From BBC

He noted that Segura’s firearm turned out to be a pellet gun indistinguishable from the real thing — though authorities wouldn’t learn that until later.

Some senior commanders have second-guessed Choi’s handling of one recent incident where officers shot a mentally ill man who’d been holding a pellet gun.

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

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