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studgun

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Etymology

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From stud +‎ gun.

Noun

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studgun (plural studguns)

  1. Any gun which shoots studs ("a small object that protrudes from something").
    • 1966 11, M. J. Pedersen, “Better Mousetraps”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 126, number 3, →ISSN, page 73:
      Eight shots per loading may be fired from this studgun with a one-eighth turn of the cylinder after each firing.
    • 1991, Textual Dynamics of the Professions, University of Wisconsin Press, page 262:
      This combined studgun effectiveness and danger is nowhere more dramatically illustrated than in the two accidents that formed the subject of this analysis.

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