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Noun
six-shooter (plural six-shooters)
- (colloquial, dated) A revolver which holds six cartridges.
1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 10:He drank a quart of whisky a day; was almost never drunk, but on rare occasions when the liquor fumes bested him he would invariably select a hapless victim and, whipping out the pair of mother-o’-pearl-handled six-shooters he always wore at his belt, would force him to dance by shooting at his feet—a pleasing fancy brought with him from Texas and the Cimarron.
1979, Louis L'Amour, Bendigo Shafter, →ISBN, →OL:Five or six of them youngsters, weren’t but two of them upwards of twelve or thirteen, they outs with their six-shooters and had me covered.
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