Synonyms for popgun


Grammar : Noun
Spell : pop-guhn
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɒpˌgʌn


Définition of popgun

  • As in air gun : noun pneumatic gun
Example sentences :
  • It was like trying to storm a medieval fortress with a popgun.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • It is not a 'big bird' but, after all, I only shoot with a popgun.
  • Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II (of II) » by Edmund Downey
  • Grace skedaddled, as consistency required; but with a popgun over her shoulder.
  • Extract from : « Dariel » by R. D. Blackmore
  • Let me take your popgun, mate, he said, extending his hand toward Henry.
  • Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Triumph » by Burt L. Standish
  • They're jest waitin' fer us to trail on between them, when every man'll let fly with his popgun.
  • Extract from : « Indian and Scout » by F. S. Brereton
  • And they went to find a popgun, or something, and the service was so very long, you know.
  • Extract from : « Patty's Perversities » by Arlo Bates
  • Rafael remembered his popgun,—a frail weapon, but it served.
  • Extract from : « In Sunny Spain with Pilarica and Rafael » by Katharine Lee Bates
  • She sighted the Maud Mary at once, and fired some sort of popgun to arrest us.
  • Extract from : « Tono Bungay » by H. G. Wells
  • Wy yer might as well talk of a popgun a holding its own with a Krupp.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 22nd, 1890 » by Various
  • The popgun of the little Theophilus could never have been heard!
  • Extract from : « Calamities and Quarrels of Authors » by Isaac Disraeli

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