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Definition of Peashooters
1. peashooter [n] - See also: peashooter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peashooters
Literary usage of Peashooters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"A TOUNG gentleman, desirous of a commission in the gallant Light peashooters,
his anxious parent, before coming down with the money, put to his ambitious ..."
2. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches: A Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1904)
"Of course we all liked, and a very full house was the result, most of it armed
with peashooters, and bags of peas for the purpose of peppering Mr. Pepper ..."
3. "Holding the Line" by Harold Baldwin (1918)
"But who can explain peashooters better than your Uncle Dudley?" " Yes, your
knowledge extends possibly to peashooters, but this thing is a man's gun. ..."
4. "Holding the Line" by Harold Baldwin (1918)
"But who can explain peashooters better than your Uncle Dudley'?" " Yes, your
knowledge extends possibly to peashooters, but this thing is a man's gun. ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1880)
"... turning his attention from thunderbolts to peashooters." The Times has just
issued a volume of " Biographies of Eminent Persons, with Editorial Comments ..."
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