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gunslinging

American  
[guhn-sling-ing] / ˈgʌnˌslɪŋ ɪŋ /

adjective

  1. of or relating to a gunslinger.

  2. carrying or shooting a gun, especially habitually.


noun

  1. the practice of carrying or shooting a gun, especially habitually.

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And I became a gunslinging nitwit in what was the last really crazy, silly stock market before the internet era.

From Barron's Dec. 31, 2025

Viewed in separate episodes they play like contextualizing background information, the "meanwhile" percolating behind Mando's gunslinging action.

From Salon Apr. 13, 2023

But even if single-stock gunslinging does net a windfall for a young investor, that exposure to mutual funds will count for something.

From New York Times Sep. 12, 2020

The greater football world knew him, if he was known at all, as a slightly chunky, gunslinging Alabama quarterback from the mid-1990s.

From Washington Post Aug. 7, 2019

Evan Rachel Wood’s sweet rancher’s daughter turned gunslinging terror Dolores leads a separate charge through the park to liberate her programmable peers from human control and then take her crusade beyond Westworld’s engineered borders.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 20, 2018

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