てっぽう

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Japanese

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鉄砲
gun
(sumo) teppo.
(Kansai, slang) pufferfish, 河豚(ふぐ) (fugu), punning on あたる (ataru, poisoned; shot), i.e., a pufferfish is something that can poison you, just as a gun is something that can shoot you.
(This term, てっぽう (teppō), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)