单词 | gun-fighter |
释义 | > as lemmasgun-fighter gun-fighter n. one who frequently participates in gun-fights; also figurative. ΚΠ 1894 Midwinter Appeal (San Francisco) 27 Jan. 2/3 The gun-fighters rushed up with cocked revolvers and ordered him to halt. 1910 J. Hart Vigilante Girl xxvii. 374 This man Hawke is a gun-fighter, and as cool and courageous as Tower can be. 1950 Manch. Guardian Weekly 17 Aug. 7/3 All ‘Westerns’ are..strict observers of a moral and social code—..But ‘The Gunfighter’ goes much farther in moral lecturing. 1964 D. F. Dowd in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 59 To become..an intellectual gunfighter. < as lemmas |
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