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Popgun   Listen
noun
Popgun  n.  A child's gun; a tube and rammer for shooting pellets, with a popping noise, by compression of air.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Popgun" Quotes from Famous Books



... absolute antipathy to them, sir—they are all very well in their way. For instance, I wish you would fit me with two twelvepound carronades instead of those two popgun long sixes. These, with thirty muskets, and thirty—five men or so, would ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... the materiality of the air; and when I tell you that the box holds a pound of it, and this room more than a ton, you will begin to think that air is something very serious. I will make another experiment, to convince you of this positive resistance. There is that beautiful experiment of the popgun, made so well and so easily, you know, out of a quill, or a tube, or anything of that kind,—where we take a slice of potato, for instance, or an apple, and take the tube and cut out a pellet, as I have now done, and ...
— The Chemical History Of A Candle • Michael Faraday

... second mate sarcastically. "I'm much obliged and thankye for telling me. You put the bullet in at that end of the gun too, don't you, and push it through with the ramrod like a popgun, eh?" ...
— Old Gold - The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig • George Manville Fenn

... arrived we know not. It was a top, certainly: that was proved by the fact that there was nothing within sight. We cannot claim that it was the topmost top; Kimchinjinga might have towered within pistol-shot; popgun-shot was our extremest range of vision, except for one instant, when a kind-hearted sunbeam gave us a vanishing glimpse of a white lake and breadth of forest far in ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 62, December, 1862 • Various



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