What is "six-gun"

Usage examples of "six-gun".

Then Martin Link was screaming loud at Iona, gutshot, flopping about on the floor while Longarm dove headfirst at the sofa, grabbing his six-gun as he rolled over the back and landed back on his feet in better shape to take charge again.

There were plenty of young things at the hoedown, lots of little Bo Dereks and Farrah Fawcetts bobbing to the Okey band, and squired by many a six-gunned young dude.

But then the Winchester was silent, and Laramie was raking the rim with such a barrage of lead that the gunman evidently dared not lift himself high enough to line the sights of a six-gun.

Gravel spurted as the sorrel threw back his head against the sawing bit and came to a sliding stop, and all in one motion Laramie was out of the saddle and on his feet beside the sheriff--half crouching and his six-gun cocked and pointed.

Everything had been styled after an ancient musical, which meant the men wore shirts made of tablecloths from Italian restaurants and every other vidiot packed a six-gun with a low-grade laser triggered by revolver blanks.

So she, her still-warm six-gun, and the childishly written arrest warrant came along ladylike, and in no time at all Longarm had her seated in the only chair on their side of the cluttered desk in the smoke-filled oak-paneled office of Marshal William Vail of the Denver District Court.

A Jamaican woman in an Annie Oakley buckskin dress shrieked, fired a six-gun cap pistol.

The way they tell it, your average drover spends his days fighting off fifty Comanche braves with one hand and untying a beautiful gal from the railroad tracks with the other, all the while with a lit stick of dynamite clenched in his teeth, pearl-handled six-guns in his holster, and a horse that dances the Texas two-step every time he whistles She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain.

Popov was cheap in Maine, but it was dirt cheap in New Hampshire, a state which took its stand for the finer things in life - a fat state lottery, cheap booze, cheap cigarettes, and tourist attractions like Santa's Village and Six-Gun City.

But it would have been impolite to move in on such an invite with his six-gun out.

For Sharp Cookies, Vic and Roger had developed the Cookie Sharpshooter, a bumbling Western peace officer whose six-guns shot cookies instead of bullets, courtesy of the special-effects people - Chocka Chippers in some spots, Ginger Snappies in others, Oh Those Oatmeals in still others.

McKenna chuckled at the political cartoon in the Post -- a masked caricature of him wearing a battered white hat and empty six-gun holsters, sitting on a crate marked WHEAT and facing an angry Russian bear.