Räuberpistole

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German

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Etymology

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Räuber +‎ Pistole, in its story sense originally a Berlin colloquialism often in reference to disingenuously constructed crime fiction, also supported by a jargonic verb räubern (to fib, to tell tall stories).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʁɔʏ̯bɐ.pɪsˌtoːlə/
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Noun

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Räuberpistole f (genitive Räuberpistole, plural Räuberpistolen)

  1. (obsolete) a pistol typical for someone occupied in robbery
  2. wild story, tall tale, just-so story

Declension

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Further reading

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  • Räuberpistole” in Duden online
  • Räuberpistole” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • Räuberpistole” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • Meyer, Hans (1904) Der richtige Berliner in Wörtern und Redensarten, 5th edition, Berlin: H.S. Hermann, page 96a
  • Schmidt, Immanuel, Tanger, Gustav, editors (1896), “fish story”, in Flügel-Schmidt-Tanger: A Dictionary of the English and German Languages for Home and School: English / Wörterbuch der Englischen und Deutschen Sprache für Hand- und Schulgebrauch, volume 1: English-German, Braunschweig: George Westermann, page 264b