gat

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a pistol or handgun (slang); also a channel between sandbanks

   The gangster slipped a gat into his coat pocket before leaving.

The 'pistol' sense is early-20th-century American slang, shortened from 'Gatling gun' (named after inventor R. J. Gatling); the 'channel' sense is from Dutch 'gat' ('hole, gap').

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