Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/January 27

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Word of the day
for January 27
peashooter n
  1. A toy weapon consisting of a tube through which dried peas or small objects are blown.
  2. A person who uses such a device.
  3. (slang) Any small or ineffective gun or weapon.

The American children’s author Jean Merrill was born on this day in 1923. Her best known work, The Pushcart War, about a “war” on the streets of New York City between trucking companies and pushcart owners who use peashooters as weapons to disrupt the trucks, was published 60 years ago in 1964.

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