Glock

/ ɡlɒk /

noun

1. a type of pistol

Word History and Origins

Origin of Glock¹

C20: named after Gaston Glock (born 1929), Austrian manufacturer

Example Sentences

The officer said he then felt an "immense weight of pressure" to his right side and felt his Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol move across his leg and around his body.

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Court documents revealed police recovered a knife, a Glock pistol, black gloves, a black hat and a black face mask during a search of Kohberger's family home.

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Court documents revealed police recovered a knife, a Glock pistol, black gloves, a black hat and a black face mask during a search of Mr Kohberger's family home.

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Within an hour, Jessy offered us a Liberator or a Glock switch.

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Not long afterwards in south-east Austria, a 21-year-old who had dropped out of school three years earlier, walked into Dreierschützengasse high school in Graz at 09:43, and shot dead nine students and a teacher with a Glock 19 handgun and a sawn-off shotgun.

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