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pop gun

NOUN
BB gun
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The top gun of the 2015 World Cup has been a mere pop gun four years later.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2019

That was the only thing the boy could have meant—Shepard and Grissom who had gotten the pop gun flights while Glenn got the orbits.

From Time ● Dec. 8, 2016

The shtick is that she leads a double life, and goes off at night poaching game with a pop gun.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2016

"The neurophysiology of stress depletes the body. You may come down and want to explode off the board but it may be like a pop gun," he said.

From Reuters ● Aug. 16, 2016

"But we'll look, anyhow, and maybe I can scare one of them with my pop gun."

From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While by Florence England Nosworthy


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