Definition of Pistol

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Definition of Pistol
	Pistol The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, -- now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names. See Illust. of Revolver. To shoot with a pistol. Related Definitions: And, Be, Bearing, Firearm, Fired, From, Great, Hand, Intended, Many, Now, Of, One, Pistol, Revolver, See, Shoot, The, To, Used, Variety, With

Pistol Quotations

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.
Garrison Keillor

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Thomas Carlyle

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"
George Will

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
Benjamin Netanyahu

I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a movie.
Lee Harvey Oswald

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Charles Lamb

Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald.
John Sherman Cooper

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
Philip Roth

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
Boyle Roche

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.
Mike Rutherford

Pistol Translations

pistol in Dutch is pistool
pistol in French is pistolet
pistol in German is Pistole
pistol in Hungarian is pisztoly
pistol in Italian is pistola
pistol in Portuguese is pistola
pistol in Spanish is pistola

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