water pistol

noun
a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
Also called water gun, squirt gun.


Origin:
1900–05

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water pistol
 
n
Also called (US): water gun a toy pistol that squirts a stream of water or other liquid

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Water pistol is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Example sentences
The player, using a water pistol, shoots the water into a target.
The masterstroke here is to use the run-off water from the brolly to fill the water pistol.
Given the league's wave of bad publicity lately, imagine what the price would have been if it had been a water pistol.
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