sawn-off shotgun
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[edit]sawn-off shotgun (plural sawn-off shotguns)
- A shotgun whose barrel(s) has been shortened for ease of concealment and to give a larger spread, though with more limited range (often for illegal purposes).
- 2007, “Jigsaw Falling into Place”, in In Rainbows, performed by Radiohead:
- I never really got there / I just pretended that I had / Words are blunt instruments / Words are sawn-off shotguns
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[edit]- sawed-off shotgun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia