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How Many Slang Terms do you Know for Hanguns? |
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Posts: 41 (08/19/08 10:34 PM) |
I once read that the single word that has the most synonyms was drunk. Someone researched that term as far back as they could and that single term had the
most synonyms, polluted, wasted, liquored up, sauced, you get the idea. I also thought of all the slang terms for handguns, I know of many dating all the way
back to cowboy days and all the way up to today's street slang. How many do you know? I will start it off with a term from the cowboy days.
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Posts: 754 (08/19/08 11:13 PM) Veteran member |
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Rod Heat Shooting Iron Snubby Saturday Night Special Hog Leg Peacemaker Six-Shooter Hand Gun Buntline Special Sam's Son Stopper Pistola Pocket Pistol Squeezer Flame Thrower Wheel Gun Machine Pistol Horse Pistol Hide-out Gun Belt Pistol Dueler Pepperbox Ducks Foot Martial Pistol Buckle Gun Sleeve Gun Boot Gun Concealed Gun Shoulder Rig Gun Derringer Grip Gun Purse Gun Book Gun Dragoon Snake-Eyes Equalizer Hip Shooter Hand Cannon I just had a brain-freeze, ouch! 
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Posts: 1591 (08/20/08 12:17 AM) |
You forgot "John Rosco".
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Posts: 2395 (08/20/08 12:39 AM) Veteran member |
Barney Fife called it "artillery" once. Oh and don't forget "tool".
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Posts: 102 (08/20/08 01:50 AM) active member |
Iron, gat,
" The only condition for evil to thrive, is that good men do nothing"
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Posts: 3514 (08/20/08 12:51 PM) |
Once upon a time crooked cops carried "throwaways".
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Posts: 1267 (08/20/08 01:02 PM) Host |
Strap, Dog, "9", "40", "45", Street Cross, Block (Glock),
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Posts: 2882 (08/20/08 02:49 PM) Forum Site Moderator |
I call them 'units'.
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Posts: 190 (08/20/08 09:28 PM) |
While in a gun shop I overheard the following conversation.
Newbyfrom the hood : "Hey man....I'm looking for one of those six hour guns" Dealer: " A what???" Newby: "You know...One of them six hour guns" Dealer: " Never heard of a six hour gun....sorry" Turns out he was inquiring about a Sig Sauer.
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Still waiting on my Official Red Ryder Carbine Action Two-Hundred Shot Range Model Air Rifle with a compass in the stock. Chip |
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Posts: 2888 (08/21/08 11:09 AM) Forum Site Moderator |
I was out shooting black powder yesterday so I remembered another term:
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Posts: 759 (08/21/08 11:38 AM) Veteran member |
I think smokepole is generally considered to be a Black Powder Muzzle Loading RIFLE, but it is certainly a valid slang term for a type of gun, just not usually
referenced to a handgun, in my experience!
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Posts: 491 (08/21/08 11:53 AM) |
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Sweet Pea bone Zip Thunder Boom Boom Bang Bang Shooter. Steel finger ArtinSC |
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Posts: 401 (08/21/08 04:38 PM) active member |
If you are a fan of the movie "Army of Darkness", let's not forget Boom Stick!
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2629239065/ Greg |
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Posts: 43 (08/21/08 07:46 PM) |
Unless someone mentioned it before and I missed it. "lemon squeezer" for one of the safety hammerless S&W's of long ago.
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Posts: 2112 (08/22/08 12:04 AM) |
A little bit of the Good News....
I reside in Michigan. After you purchase a hand gun you have to take it into the local Cop Shop to obtain a "green safety check card". So I took one in to the police station packaged just like it was when I purchased it. It was inside a cardboard box for a New American Bible. Anyhow, when I went up to the sign in Cop down at the police station I told him that I had a pistol to declare then presented it in the Bible box.... and he said: oh, you have a little bit of the Good News in there... |
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Posts: 15839 (08/22/08 02:01 PM) Owner/operator |
I may have missed this one but how about "Big Iron" from the Marty Robbin's song?
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"Big Iron".
Now that's "hip" !
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Posts: 4708 (08/23/08 07:09 PM) |
>>How Many Slang Terms do you Know for Hanguns?<<
How about "Hanguns?"
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Posts: 66 (08/24/08 08:32 PM) active member |
Here's an obscure one : "Big Number" as noted in the song "Poor Lazarus"
And then the high sheriff, he shot Lazarus Well, he shot him with a mighty big number Well the high sheriff, shot Lazarus Well he shot him with a mighty big number With a forty five Lawd, Lawd With a forty five |
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