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pistol shotnoun1A shot fired from a pistol: glass cracked with the sound of a pistol shot...- She kept it up and soon the guard shot off a pistol shot and a bundle of snow on a cliff fell atop the group.
- That's his class picture there, back from the days he marched in the school band (he was the drum major) without firing a single pistol shot.
- In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
1.1 [mass noun] The range of a pistol: my object was to get within pistol shot of the buffalo...- The site was with sight of a fortified Vietnamese army compound just a pistol shot away.
- Surrounding my digs are acres of chaparral and scrub oak, and the closest pavement is a good pistol shot away.
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