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air rifle



NOUN
BB gun
Synonyms


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The first gold medal of Paris 2024 is likely to be shooting’s mixed team air rifle.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2024

Radke said he ordered Tovar to stop and talk to him, and Tovar produced what he thought at first was a shotgun, but later turned out to be an air rifle.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2024

A highlight is the discussion of a novel, multishot air rifle that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark brought on their continental expedition.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2023

Telling deputies that they had killed a vulture, they opened the trunk, where instead a dead bald eagle had been stored along with an air rifle and BB pistol.

From Washington Times • Mar. 3, 2023

Winnie brought me an old air rifle that I had in Orlando and Arthur and I would use it for target practice or hunting doves on the farm.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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