quick draw

noun

1. a game or competition in which the winner is the quickest person to draw a handgun from a holster and sometimes to fire it and hit a target.

Example Sentences

Then, with a quick draw of breath, they catch themselves: She is.

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They have kept his Quick Draw lottery numbers stored behind the bar in the “Bartender’s Bible,” a drink recipe book.

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She put the bracer on her left forearm, positioning it to keep her sleeve from interfering with her quick draw, but also to cover the tender inside.

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All emerging industries — with their attendant opportunities for entrepreneurial people no one has heard of to get rich real quick — draw at least a few fabulists.

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Her crystalline voice has a soulful side, and while Crow often keeps it in a holster, she’s a quick draw.

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