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handcannon

handcannon is the alternative form of hand cannon.

Meaning of hand cannon

Noun

hand cannon (plural hand cannons)

  1. An early firearm requiring manual ignition through a touch hole.
    Synonyms:
    gonne, handgonne
  2. (US, slang) A very large handgun, often impractically so.
    • Vincent: "Did you forget that somebody was in there with a goddamn hand cannon?"1994, Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction

Forms of handcannon

pluralhandcannons

Questions about handcannon

What is handcannon the alternative form of?
Handcannon is the alternative form of hand cannon.

Words near handcannon in the dictionary

  1. handbreadth
  2. handbreadths
  3. handbuilding
  4. handbuilt
  5. handcam
  6. handcannon
  7. handcannons
  8. handcar
  9. handcarchief
  10. handcard
  11. handcards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: handcannon (page history and authors); hand cannon (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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