air gun
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of air gun
First recorded in 1745–55
Example Sentences
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The weapon was later described as a replica air gun.
From BBC • May 13, 2025
John Dingell was comfortable with firearms at an early age: When not blasting ducks with a shotgun, he was plinking rats with an air gun in the basement of the U.S.
From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2023
Medvedev will plead guilty to the charge of carrying an air gun, his lawyer Brynjulf Risnes said, and not guilty to some of the other charges, without specifying which.
From Reuters • Apr. 25, 2023
Speak loud, before the first air gun is fired.
From Washington Times • Dec. 12, 2018
A simple example of air pressure is the air gun, called in the seventeenth century ‘the wind-gun’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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