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pump gun

noun

  1. a shotgun or rifle having a pump-action mechanism.


pump gun

noun

  1. a repeating gun operated by a slide-action mechanism feeding ammunition from a magazine under the barrel into the breech


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pump gun1

First recorded in 1905–10

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Example Sentences

Three more charges in this elegant pump-gun, and all for you.

Id like to run across something worth taking a crack at with my pump-gun.

And so it came that Bluff was carrying another firearm than his favorite pump-gun.

A much more serviceable gun to repel a counter-attack would be one firing buckshot like a pump-gun.

He held a pump gun at his shoulder, the muzzle dominating the group.

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