noun
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Meanings
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noun
a revolver with a cylinder designed to hold six cartridges
The guard found an old six-shooter wrapped in oilcloth inside the chest.
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Etymology
A compound of six + shooter, recorded in nineteenth-century American English for a revolver with six chambers. Its strong association with frontier fiction and Western films later made the term culturally broader than a merely technical cartridge count.