Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1937, from Spanish; see pistolier.
Wikipedia
Pistolero is the second album by Frank Black and the Catholics, produced by Nick Vincent and released via spinART Records on March 9, 1999. It was recorded live, directly to a two track.
Pistolero may refer to:
- A gunfighter
- Pistolero (album), by Frank Black and the Catholics
- "Pistolero" (song), by Juno Reactor
- Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Gunnar Raasch, whose trail name is "El Pistolero"
- "Pistolero" (Dschinghis Khan song), by Dschinghis Khan
- Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist nicknamed "El Pistolero"
- Luis Suárez, Uruguayan footballer nicknamed "El Pistolero"
Pistolero is a song released by electronica band Juno Reactor, and recorded on their fifth album Shango.
The song opens with Spanish acoustic guitar and a female voice saying, "I hate robbing banks" followed by a blast of gun fire that introduces the Goa Trance beat.
Pistolero was done in a collaboration between Ben Watkins and Steve Stevens, guitarist for Billy Idol. The song opened up an entirely new direction for Juno Reactor.
Usage examples of "pistolero".
The Mexican pistolero was there but he was lounging back against the wall outside the door and his gun was holstered.
The pistolero was not there, but Longarm could see him farther down the hall standing near a door some ten yards distant.
He had the feeling that he was segregated off in some sort of a wing of the house and that the only way out was through the door the pistolero was standing by.
The idea was that he was going to light the fuse and hope that it burned fast enough to catch whichever pistolero came in and explode before the man could see the danger.
They may have been afraid of some pistolero smashing it to obtain a sharp shard of glass to aid an escape, but in my case all I wanted to do was get some sleep, and that sonofabitch was burning out my eye-sockets.
Once into Aqua Prieta, he tied his horse in front of a cantina and got a beer and began in his poor Spanish, asking about the ranchero of el pistolero gringo.
Spinner, he finally decided, was well above the station of some ride-and-shoot pistolero like Austin Davis, and he would never allow a lady of her accomplishments to come anywhere near a rounder like the junior deputy marshal.
His only concession to a certain independence of thought was a drooping pistolero mustache, shades darker than his hair, glinting brown-red in direct sunlight.
The standard Pistolero hit involved two men - a driver and a gunman - and a motorcycle.
Colombiano pistolero came in, and he really took to her, she being about twice his height and weight, and she was tired of waiting on a paraplegic crip, so now he has her stashed down in the Hotel Mutiny there, eating chocolates and watching the soaps, while he is out around town gunning down the competition.
He had a lot of long black hair, a drooping pistolero mustache, rubbery brown jowls, flinty little eyes deep-set under thick black brows, buffalo shoulders, a lacy white guayabera stretched taut across chest and stomach, a lot of dangling gold trinkets on a thick gold chain nested in the black chest hair, and a sharp tang of some kind of insistent male perfume.
He kicked backward, taking out another pistolero with a toe to the throat.
He took the opportunity to trip one pistolero, sending him over the side of the terrace.
Gordons trampled one last pistolero who had stayed to fight, and began lumbering down the stairs.
La causa fue el tributo exigido por los pistoleros de Kelly al empresario de una casa de juego, compadre de Monk Eastman.