zip gun

zip gun

noun
a homemade pistol, typically consisting of a metal tube taped to a wooden stock and firing a .22-caliber bullet.

Origin:
1945–50
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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zip gun
 
n
slang (US), (Canadian) a crude homemade pistol, esp one powered by a spring or rubber band

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zip gun definition


  1. n.
    a homemade handgun. (Underworld.) : The kid had a zip gun, so I didn't argue.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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