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Meaning of shooting iron | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A firearm, especially a handgun.

US, colloquial, dated

Equivalents

Examples

“"It ain't the rifle, Harry," Sam said good-temperedly; "it is the eye that is wrong, not the shooting-iron."”
Look like a fool walking about with an empty shooting-iron in my hand.”
“"Look like a damn fool walking about with an empty shooting-iron in my hand."”
The U.S. Army's newest war tool, the M-3 submachine gun, unveiled last week. [...] a stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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