What is "pistol-whipped"

Usage examples of "pistol-whipped".

In jail he half-starved to death and was pistol-whipped almost unconscious by a county jailer, Todd McNunn, for trying to escape by battering a hole hi the cheap cinderblock wall with his head.

He bled from several cuts under his hair where Lyons had pistol-whipped him.

Morse himself had a lump on his jaw and behind his ear where Jak had pistol-whipped him with the .

The truth was that Dunbar then went inside the Lakey house, pistol-whipped Fran Lakey, and shot eight-year-old Cindy Lakey three times while Ross Mondale was God-knew-where, doing God-knew-what.