gun-toting
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of gun-toting
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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His lead role as a gun-toting rebel in the 1972 crime drama The Harder They Come is a cornerstone of Jamaican cinema, and was attributed as the movie that brought reggae to America.
From BBC
Two weeks ago, scores of masked, gun-toting federal immigration agents assembled in front of the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times
Kreider’s husband, Jim, chimed in: “A redneck, gun-toting environmentalist.”
From Salon
Unlike other rural places that overwhelmingly vote Republican, Inyo County “is more of an outlier,” with its mountain and desert towns appealing to “rednecks and hippies,” gun-toting hunters and backpacking environmentalists, said Kim Nalder, director of the Project for an Informed Electorate at Sacramento State.
From Los Angeles Times
He said many of the recruits had run away, and were being helped by other villagers to hide from Wathawa and his gun-toting monks.
From BBC
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