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mousetrap guns

mousetrap guns is the plural of mousetrap gun.

Meaning of mousetrap gun

Noun

mousetrap gun (plural mousetrap guns)

  1. (historical) A device patented by James Alexander Williams in 1882, consisting of a frame with a handgun or revolver rigged to fire when triggered by an animal stepping on a treadle.

Questions about mousetrap guns

What is mousetrap guns the plural of?
Mousetrap guns is the plural of mousetrap gun.

Words near mousetrap guns in the dictionary

  1. mousetail
  2. mousetails
  3. mousetaur
  4. mousetrap
  5. mousetrap gun
  6. mousetrap guns
  7. mousetrap man
  8. mousetrap men
  9. mousetrapped
  10. mousetrapping
  11. mousetraps

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