Search for crossword answers and clues
Hang around after pub room’s backed Wild West fighter
Answer for the clue "Hang around after pub room’s backed Wild West fighter ", 10 letters:
gunslinger
Alternative clues for the word gunslinger
Word definitions for gunslinger in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gunslinger is the title of a long poem in six parts by Ed Dorn .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 In the Old West: a person who carried a gun and was an expert at the quick draw. 2 In modern usage: a person who behaves with the bravado expected of someone who would duel with guns.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A peerless champion of his own era, he had been reduced to an ineffectual has-been by the modern gunslingers. ▪ Creed, the gunslinger , had been faster, though. ▪ First he began to shy away from the crowd of young street thug ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman , hired gun , gun , gun for hire , triggerman , hit man , hitman , torpedo , shooter ]
Usage examples of gunslinger.
Roland repeated, and there was ajingle as the gunslinger opened the door.
The gunslinger let go of the handle and the handcar coasted noiselessly to the rocks, where it thumped to rest.
Thorne, with the young gunslinger at his back, was riding out and she was once more left in the dust.
To it flocked the gunslingers, gamblers, the badmen one jump ahead of the law, the soldiers and rustlers and the girls.
Besides Jamaica, Sommers commanded three other command battlecruisers to weld her firepower into datagroups, and that firepower included five Dunkerque-class missile-armed battlecruisers, but the centerpiece of the gunslinger array was Captain Kabilovic's fleet carrier Staghound and the two attached Ophiuchi Zirk-Coaalkyr-class CVLs.
Susannah shot a small deer on their second day in the forest (or maybe it was the third day…or the fourth), and the meat was delicious after a steady diet of vegetarian gunslinger burritos, but there were no orcs or trolls in the deep glades, and no elves—Keebler or otherwise.
The gunslinger went to the tiny, leaning church by the graveyard while Allie washed tables with strong disinfectant and rinsed kerosene lamp chimnies in soapy water.
The mule let out a wheezing grunt and the dweller looked up, glaring blue eyes coming target-center on the gunslinger in a moment He raised both hands in curt salute and then bent to the corn again, humping up the row next to his hut with back bent, tossing devil-grass and an occasional stunted corn plant over his shoulder.
A handful of hoarded Bug kamikazes streaked in, launched at the last moment to hurl themselves upon the bleeding gunslingers.
According to Andy, one of the gunslingers was actually a woman, but Callahan saw no need to muddy the waters further (although an impish part of him wanted to, just the same).
That was surely not enough time for the Old Fella to tell them about the years he had spent on the bum before seeing a news story in the Sacramento Bee which had brought him back to New York in 1981, and yet the three gunslingers heard the entire tale, nevertheless.
Lee was called to the hospital to sew up three gunslingers who had shot it out near the New Mexico border, so Blair was alone.
The arms of the man who looked like the extravagant sort of gunslinger one would only see in a spaghetti western were glowing with lines of bright, baleful red.
The gunslinger assumed their gunna had been left lying in the dirt in front of the East Stoneham store, although he couldn't remember for sure.
The gunslinger assumed their gunna had been left lying in the dirt in front of the East Stoneham store, although he couldn’t remember for sure.