Wiktionary
n. (context science fiction English) A firearm that fires bullets.
Usage examples of "slugthrower".
From the confident manner with which she held her long-barreled slugthrower, Mirina guessed that some of the medals were for marksmanship.
He draped a sack over one arm for the, well, the search object, and hoped he would not need the slugthrower at his hip.
Some were armed with blaster carbines and semiautos, others with slugthrowers, forcepikes, and axes.
The blue-eyed Korun- Smiley, the one who had led him here-and the other man who had lain beneath the tarp held rapid-fire slugthrowers that they slipped over the roof rim to fill the alley below with a lethal swarm of bullets.
The troops looked like pools of shadow from which slugthrowers and anti-armor missiles protruded.
Those in front didn't have guns, but many of the ones standing at the back of the crowd carried short-barreled slugthrowers much like the Gendarmery's.