Luger

[ loo-ger ]

Trademark.

1. a brand of automatic pistol of 9-millimeter caliber, made in Germany.

Luger

/ ˈluːɡə /

noun

1. a German 9 mm calibre automatic pistol

Word History and Origins

Origin of Luger¹

C20: named after George Luger (1849–1923), German gun designer

Example Sentences

They found that the archaeal nucleosomes are “uncannily similar” in structure to eukaryotic nucleosomes, Luger said — despite the marked differences in their peptide sequences.

From Quanta Magazine

In a paper in eLife published in March, Luger, her postdoc Samuel Bowerman, and Jeff Wereszczynski of the Illinois Institute of Technology followed up on the 2017 paper.

From Quanta Magazine

Archaeal nucleosomes had already “figured out how to bind and bend DNA in this beautiful arc,” said Luger, now a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

From Quanta Magazine

Luger now wishes to look at other strange archaea that live in extreme environments to confirm whether these bendable DNA Slinkies are “a general phenomenon, or whether other solutions have been invented for this DNA packaging problem.”

From Science News

He stepped into the host general's study and saw on his desk a Luger, a souvenir.

From The Daily Beast

There was a quick flash, and Ben was staring into the business end of a Luger automatic, gripped tightly in the broker's hand.

From Project Gutenberg

Bartley was busy, assembling the Luger, and Cheyenne was watching him, when they glanced up simultaneously.

From Project Gutenberg

After the horses were hobbled and the packs arranged, Bartley decided to experiment a little with his new Luger automatic.

From Project Gutenberg

"That would be a pretty good gun to git hoss-thieves with," asserted the boy, still thinking of the Luger.

From Project Gutenberg

They might mean the difference between success and a Luger bullet.

From Project Gutenberg