Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of squirter or syringe used as a toy by boys.
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Examples
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Friend of mine reports that one of the few intelligent things her mother did for her She had one of those relationships. was to give her a squirt-gun to kill the evil, child-eating radiators that would try to get her in her sleep.
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The dinosaurs around his room — models, statues, pictures, posters, fossils, little plastic toys and even a squirt-gun — seemed to sympathize mutely with his suffering, but they could not feel his pain.
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At least we won't have to deploy the squirt-gun on neighborhood cats around the chickadee nest . . .
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Who wants to have to empty the electronics before starting a squirt-gun war on a hot July day?
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Who wants to have to empty the electronics before starting a squirt-gun war on a hot July day?
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The little girl in the neighborhood never forgave me that our SHAZAM movie fell through, though in highschool I organized a game of "Killer" (everyone assigned a squirt-gun target) that ran for weeks and caused much havoc.
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She rattled the wooden blinds, pulled books off shelves, and played “gravity experiments” paw-patting breakables off the mantel — all to invite games of squirt-gun tag.
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She rattled the wooden blinds, pulled books off shelves, and played “gravity experiments” paw-patting breakables off the mantel — all to invite games of squirt-gun tag.
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America's second oldest theme park has 67 rides, dozens of squirt-gun games and mobs of kids waving countless gobs of cotton candy.
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There are 67 rides, dozens of squirt-gun games and mobs of kids waving countless gobs of cotton candy.
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