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- noun Alternative form of
six-gun .
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Examples
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But still, the sixgun, tempered with compassion and even some hard-earned wisdom, rules theprairie.
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As Woody Guthrie wrote, "some will rob you with a six gun and some with a fountain pen" Personally, I think the sixgun is at least a little less devious.
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Here he laid two things, the last of his gunna: Aunt Talitha's cross, and his remaining sixgun.
The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004
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Lost in the current nonsense is the fact that this belief (that Hussein had reconstitued his WMD programs) is not new, is not radical, and is not merely the groundless assertion of a bloodthirsty sixgun-packin' cowboy from Texas (or a crisp, liberal English Prime Minister).
Archive 2003-07-01 2003
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Her right hand was a blur between the arm of the chair and the butt of Roland's sixgun.
The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991
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Deke's sixgun was out, his left hand streaking back faster than Rourke could see clearly, the big revolver belching fire and roaring like a grenade going off near his ears.
The Nightmare Begins Ahern, Jerry 1981
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Inflicting religion on an insane person is like shooting fish in a barrel. sixgun wrote: Wars over religion kill more people then all other causes.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local intensejack 2010
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All thoughts of linguistic betterment left me when I saw the sixgun at his hip.
unknown title 2009
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I don't remember where I read it but one editor / commentator wrote that a writer might well, on having his western short story rejected, exchange the main character's sixgun for a laser, his horse for a spaceship, red men for green men, and resubmit the story to a sci-fi magazine.
theRPGSite 2009
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So the next time you strap on your chaps and your sixgun, remember: There were damned few good guys, and you wouldn’t want to live within 10 miles of them anyway.
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