gun-toting
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of gun-toting
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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His lead role as a gun-toting rebel in the 1972 crime drama The Harder They Come is a cornerstone of Jamaican cinema, and was attributed as the movie that brought reggae to America.
From BBC
But in the last facility -- bristling with high fences and gun-toting guards -- he got a taste of the real work, sending unsolicited messages to scam targets in the United States.
From Barron's
Just three others have co-sponsored the Epstein bill, and they are among the most famous and least reputable members of the GOP—although they are, notably, all female: reality-eschewing conspiracymonger Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, gun-toting controversymonger Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, and pathologically narcissistic attentionmonger Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina.
From Slate
Thank heavens those leaves are being raked, and never mind that it also allows for normalizing the ethos of gun-toting troops at Union Station and Metro stops.
From Slate
Two weeks ago, scores of masked, gun-toting federal immigration agents assembled in front of the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times
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