six-shooter

See also: sixshooter

English

Noun

six-shooter (plural six-shooters)

1. (colloquial, dated) A revolver which holds six cartridges.

   Synonym: six-gun

   Hypernyms: revolver, wheelgun, < pistol (sometimes construed as coordinate), < handgun, < firearm

   • 1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 10:

     He drank a quart of whisky a day; was almost never drunk, but on rare occasions when the liquor fumes bested him he would invariably select a hapless victim and, whipping out the pair of mother-o’-pearl-handled six-shooters he always wore at his belt, would force him to dance by shooting at his feet—a pleasing fancy brought with him from Texas and the Cimarron.

   • 1979, Louis L'Amour, Bendigo Shafter, →ISBN, →OL:

     Five or six of them youngsters, weren’t but two of them upwards of twelve or thirteen, they outs with their six-shooters and had me covered.