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Definition of Popguns
1. popgun [n] - See also: popgun
Lexicographical Neighbors of Popguns
Literary usage of Popguns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Unexplored Balūchistan: A Survey, with Observations Astronomical by Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer (1882)
"... and the popguns.—The post from Teheran.—The most mendacious man in the
country.—The Telegraph office. —Muhammad of the ruddy face once more turns up. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1910)
"To all who know what popguns are often made of the name will appear as a suggestion
on my part. I deliberately made the suggestion to the communicator, ..."
3. Key and Manual for Hoenshel's Complete Grammar by Eli J. Hoenshel (1897)
"Battles are fought with other weapons than popguns. If we say "besides popguns,"
the sentence means that battles are fought with popguns and also with other ..."
4. The Poet at the Breakfast-table: He Talks with His Fellow-boarders and the by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891)
"I took occasion to ask That Boy what had become of all the popguns. He gave me
to understand that popguns were played out, but that he had got a squirt and ..."
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