Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A toy gun that makes a popping noise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small gun or tube with a piston or rammer for shooting pellets, which makes a pop by the expansion of compressed air when the pellet is expelled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A child's gun; a tube and rammer for shooting pellets, with a popping noise, by compression of air.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
pop gun .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun plaything consisting of a toy gun that makes a popping sound
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Examples
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Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
The American Scholar 2006
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Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
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Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, tho the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
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Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
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Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable [64] of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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The "popgun" to which he referred was one of the smooth-bore flint-lock single-barrelled fowling-pieces which traders were in the habit of supplying to the natives at that time, and which Unaco had lent to the boy for the day, with his powder-horn and ornamented shot-pouch.
Twice Bought 1859
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My attorney general, like my governor, is in a kind of popgun war against the Northern Aggression, which threatens to cast our chivalrous way of life to the wind by expanding our health care.
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My attorney general, like my governor, is in a kind of popgun war against the Northern Aggression, which threatens to cast our chivalrous way of life to the wind by expanding our health care.
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As for the voice of authority, 'Let not a man quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the anointed and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.'"
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. "
Emerson and Other Essays John Jay Chapman 1897
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