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cap-gun

cap-gun is the alternative spelling of cap gun.

Meaning of cap gun

Noun

cap gun (plural cap guns)

  1. A toy gun that uses small charges of shock-sensitive explosive compounds to simulate the sound and puff of smoke of a gunshot.

Forms of cap-gun

pluralcap-guns

Questions about cap-gun

What is cap-gun the alternative spelling of?
Cap-gun is the alternative spelling of cap gun.

Words near cap-gun in the dictionary

  1. cap-apée
  2. Cap-de-la-Madeleine
  3. Cap-enese
  4. cap-flap
  5. cap-flaps
  6. cap-gun
  7. cap-guns
  8. Cap-Haïtien
  9. cap-like
  10. cap-pistol
  11. cap-pistols

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cap-gun (page history and authors); cap gun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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