Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A toy for shooting beans, shot, or other small missiles; a pea-shooter.
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- noun slang A toy gun.
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Examples
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They tried to make him forget it, but when they failed, his mother went to the bureau and pulling open the lower drawer found a little varnished box; under the shaded lamp she brought out a sack of marbles, a broken bean-shooter, with whittled prongs, a Barlow knife, a tintype picture of a boy, and the mouth-organ.
In Our Town William Allen White 1906
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Colonel Dodd set his curved palm at his mouth and from behind the chairman shot a few words at the presiding officer as one might shoot pellets from a bean-shooter.
The Landloper Holman Day 1900
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The boy who snickered this time had cause to regret it, for Mr. Crow arrested him half an hour later for carrying a bean-shooter.
The Daughter of Anderson Crow George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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"You never can tell whether they'll stay up or not -- not with this seventy-five mile bean-shooter Fritzie's playing with.
Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913
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Toward the end of the summer, Philippina, Jason Philip’s daughter, shot out the eye of her seven-year-old brother with a so-called bean-shooter.
Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903
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