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German
Etymology
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
Noun
Räuberpistole f (genitive Räuberpistole, plural Räuberpistolen)
- (obsolete) a pistol typical for someone occupied in robbery
- wild story, tall tale, just-so story
Declension
Declension of Räuberpistole
Further reading
- “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