单词 | pistolero |
释义 | pistoleron. In Spain or Spanish-speaking areas: a gunman; a gangster. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > pistol pistolier?1563 pistoleter1570 pistoletier1587 pistoler1590 pistoleera1679 pistol man1784 sightsman1790 pistol shot1832 pistol-toter1887 pistol-packer1899 pistolero1932 1932 Hispania 15 405 Meeting their violence with that of gangsters, pistoleros in the pay of the reactionaries. 1939 G. Greene Lawless Roads 19 Mexico remained Catholic: it was the governing class—the politicians and pistoleros only who were anti-Catholic. 1973 C. Alverson Fighting Back (1978) xiv. 80 You and your red-hot pistoleros got my kid brother nearly killed. 2001 J. T. Hallinan Going up River i. 13 The bosses all wear holsters, but some of them prefer to shove the barrels of their guns into their belts, like pistoleros in spaghetti westerns. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1932 |
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