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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
six-shooter
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Only the white hat didn't have a chance to pull his six-shooter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Six-shooter

Six-shooter \Six"-shoot`er\, n. A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver.

Wiktionary
six-shooter

n. (context colloquial dated English) A revolver which holds six cartridges.

WordNet
six-shooter

n. a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets) [syn: revolver, six-gun]

Usage examples of "six-shooter".

Jest as I reched the door he come weaving out, muttering in his whiskers and waving his six-shooter.

He gestured out to the sea of spermy outlaws and Indians, coughed, and then drew his six-shooters.

But this time it was clutching a huge, fragging hogleg of a six-shooter revolver.

Hal is mentally strolling down the Appian Way in bright Eurosunlight, eating a cannoli, twirling his Dunlop racquets by the throats like six-shooters, enjoying the sunshine and cranial silence and a normal salivary flow.

He dropped the six-shooter and toppled backwards into the dirt next to the dead horse.

I was into that wagon in a twinkling, bawling to the driver to go like blazes, and blasting away over the tailboard with an Adams six-shooter in each fist.

Leaning my Winchester against the poles of the corral, I shucked my six-shooter and waited for something to move out there.

I fed shells into my six-shooters again, and then I walked over to the man I'd shot to see if he was alive.

Their six-shooters I hung on a tree where they could be seen, but their rifles I kept.

I was willing to bet my six-shooters against a prickly pear that as soon as Joel told him the news, he'd light out for Wolf Canyon.

I was doing them Chawed Ear idjits a favor, if they only knowed it, because in about another minute Bill would of started using the front ends of his six-shooters instead of the butts and the fight would of turnt into a massacre.

He also wore two large pearl-handled engraved single-action six-shooters, very Hollywood.

The rest of the time, he scowled at Monk, who was wearing the sheriff's two ornate six-shooters with much swagger.

And why an examination of the dud missiles revealed the shattered and fused remains of train sets and toy six-shooters, and if this could have any possible connection with the robberies of large toy stores in such widely separate places as Salt Lake City, Irkutsk, Londonderry and Tokyo.