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pump gun

noun

  1. a shotgun or rifle having a pump-action mechanism.


pump gun

noun

  1. a repeating gun operated by a slide-action mechanism feeding ammunition from a magazine under the barrel into the breech
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pump gun1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Example Sentences

Three more charges in this elegant pump-gun, and all for you.

Id like to run across something worth taking a crack at with my pump-gun.

And so it came that Bluff was carrying another firearm than his favorite pump-gun.

A much more serviceable gun to repel a counter-attack would be one firing buckshot like a pump-gun.

He held a pump gun at his shoulder, the muzzle dominating the group.

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