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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

Protector launched in New York and Los Angeles last week, where users can now request ride shares with gunslinging drivers and bodyguards, all of them either active or retired military or law enforcement personnel.

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2025

TWO MEN, A grizzled sheriff and a gunslinging vigilante, confront each other in a dusty saloon town.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

Mr. Saxon, who died July 25 at age 83, went on to appear in nearly 200 television and film roles over the next six decades, often playing brooding lawmen or gunslinging bandits.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2020

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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