| 单词 | gaspipe rifle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgaspipe rifle 3. slang. A gun of inferior quality. Frequently attributive, as gaspipe gun, gaspipe rifle, etc. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > small, inefficient, or antiquated gun potgun1562 pot-cannon1653 popgun1719 gas pipe1867 plinker1960 1867 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 June 403/1 His gaspipe [rifle] had gone with the canoe, an' he stood looking the durnedest fool. 1878 in Sessional Papers Canada (4th Parl., 1st Sess.) (1879) V. No. 5. 233 ‘The old gas pipe guns’, as the obsolete weapons were somewhat irreverently styled by the men who were supposed to fight them. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 238 These guns are not the ‘gas-pipes’ I have seen up north. 1910 ‘R. Dehan’ One Braver Thing xxxiii. 276 The Cape Boys with their gaspipe rifles that do good service in default of better. 1938 Rifleman Sept. 125/2 Their blind and ignorant faith in the perfection of any gaspipe which will propel a bullet. 1980 ‘M. Hennessy’ Soldier of Queen iii. iii. 229 They've only got cheap trade flintlocks. Birmingham gas-pipes we call them. < as lemmas |
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