six-shooter
Example Sentences
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Her John Wayne gallops stiff-backed on an elongated red carousel pony, a silver six-shooter held high.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
A retired gunfighter’s younger brother brings home a saloon singer and a six-shooter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2020
He swiped to a photo of himself, at age seven or eight, wearing a homemade Superman cape, with a plastic six-shooter slung low around his waist.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019
Just as not everyone in the US walks around clinking their boot spurs while twirling their six-shooter, it’s also not true that American stadiums don’t have their share of hooligans.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 18, 2017
With one quick move a six-shooter was in his hand.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
