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big iron

big iron noun: a large pistol.

Noun

big iron (uncountable)

  1. a large pistol
  2. (dated, humorous, slang) Large, expensive, powerful computers such as mainframes.

Questions about big iron

What does big iron mean?
Big iron means a large pistol.
What part of speech is big iron?
Big iron is a noun.

Words near big iron in the dictionary

  1. big house, little house, back house, barn
  2. big houses
  3. big if
  4. big if true
  5. big ifs
  6. big iron
  7. Big Island
  8. Big Jacks Creek
  9. Big Jim and the twins
  10. big jobs
  11. big joker

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