six-gun

Variant of six-shooter

six-shooter definition

☆ six·-shooter (-s̸ho̵̅o̅t′ər)

noun

Informal a revolver having a cylinder that holds six cartridges; specif., such a revolver with a long barrel and of relatively large caliber of the kind usually used in the western U.S. in the last half of the 19th cent.
also six-gun six′·-gun′

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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