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pea-shooter

pea-shooter is the alternative form of peashooter.

Meaning of peashooter

Noun

peashooter (plural peashooters)

  1. A toy weapon consisting of a tube through which dried peas or small objects are blown.
  2. A person who uses such a device.
  3. (slang) Any small or ineffective gun or weapon.
    • Compared to my forty-five, it's a toy. Christ, Thanet, why did you buy it in the first place? I would have given you one of mine, a real weapon, one with knock down power, compared to that peashooter on your hip.2012, Wayne Greenough, The Ferguson Murder, page 41

Forms of pea-shooter

pluralpea-shooters

Questions about pea-shooter

What is pea-shooter the alternative form of?
Pea-shooter is the alternative form of peashooter.

Words near pea-shooter in the dictionary

  1. pea-maggots
  2. pea-nut
  3. pea-nuts
  4. pea-pheasant
  5. pea-pheasants
  6. pea-shooter
  7. pea-shooters
  8. pea-sized
  9. pea-soup
  10. pea-soup fog
  11. pea-soup fogs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pea-shooter (page history and authors); peashooter (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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