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pistol

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pis⋅tol

  [pis-tl] noun, verb, -toled, -tol⋅ing or (especially British) -tolled, -tol⋅ling.
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–noun
1. a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.
–verb (used with object)
2. to shoot with a pistol.
Origin:
1560–70; < MF pistole < G, earlier pitschal, pitschole, petsole < Czech píšt’ala lit., pipe, fife, whistle (presumably a slang term for a type of light harquebus employed during the Hussite wars), akin to pištět to squeak, peep

Related forms:
pis⋅tol⋅like, adjective
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pis·tol   (pĭs'təl)   
n.  A firearm designed to be held and fired with one hand.
tr.v.   pis·toled, pis·tol·ing, pis·tols
To shoot with such a handgun.

[French pistole, from German, from Middle High German pischulle, from Czech píšt'ala, pipe, whistle, firearm, from pištěti, to whistle, of imitative origin.]
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pistol
[IBM] A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. "Unix "rm *" makes such a nice pistol!"
[The Jargon File]

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