powder burn

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powder burn (plural powder burns)

  1. A burn, ordinarily superficial and on someone's skin, resulting from proximity to an explosion of gunpowder, such as that associated with the discharge of a firearm.
    • 1944 April 17, “Mexico: At the Palacio Nacional”, in Time, retrieved 13 May 2014:
      To anxious throngs who crowded into Mexico City's Palacio Nacional this week, bland President Manuel Avila Camacho displayed a two-inch swath burned in the jacket of his grey-and-red striped suit, a similar powder burn in his white shirt beneath. The burns were over his heart. A jiu jitsu trick and somewhat erratic marksmanship were all that had saved the President.
    • 1983 June 4, Lydia Chavez, “Salvador Photos Indicate Massacre”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 May 2014:
      Most had head wounds and powder burns, indicating that they had been shot at close range.
    • 2013 Oct. 8, grumpynerd, "Writer's Book Report: TRUE GRIT," Daily Kos (retrieved 13 May 2014):
      Tom Chaney is a depraved man who kills for no good reason. . . . Chaney has a powder burn on his face.

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