Derringern.
/ˈdɛrɪndʒə/ U.S.figurative.1890 Daily News 4 Dec. 5/2 Tiny tomes, literary derringers for the waistcoat pocket.
A small pistol with large bore, very effective at short range. Also attributive.
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1853 G. D. Brewerton Overland with Kit Carson (1930) 188 A preventive to interference..in the shape of Bowie knives, ‘Derringers’, and ‘six-shooters’.
1854 J. R. Bartlett Personal Narr. Explor. & Incidents I. iii. 48 My carriage driver carried a pair of Deringer pistols.
1856 B. Harte Dow's Flat in Poems With a shovel and pick on his shoulder, and a derringer hid in his breast.
1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. Prol. i. 7 To have both bowie and Derringer ready to hand.
1890 Cent. Mag. Jan. 435/1 A large derringer bullet had entered the back of the head [of Pres. Lincoln].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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