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Popgun   Listen
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Popgun  n.  A child's gun; a tube and rammer for shooting pellets, with a popping noise, by compression of air.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Popgun" Quotes from Famous Books



... dumb-show. Her suit meeting no favor, the rejected Titaness made a gesture of despair and rage; then suddenly drawing a huge pistol, she took aim right at the obdurate sculptor's breast, and pulled the trigger. The shot took effect, for the abominable plaything went off by a spring, like a boy's popgun, covering Kenyon with a cloud of lime dust, under shelter of which ...
— The Marble Faun, Volume II. - The Romance of Monte Beni • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... "There are no bears on Blueberry Island, or daddy would have brought a gun. And he said I didn't even need my popgun, 'cause there wasn't a thing here to shoot. But ...
— The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island • Laura Lee Hope



Words linked to "Popgun" :   plaything



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