Definitions

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  • adjective Having a dueling or Wild West character; wild and tough

Etymologies

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gun +‎ slinging

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Examples

  • Saying gunslinging is so-so-sexy to other young, still-in-school children just shows that she may have a woman's body but not a shred of intelligence.

    Bonnie Fuller: Taylor Momsen, 17, In Guns & Garters -- Is It Even More Disturbing Than Miley? Bonnie Fuller 2010

  • Feinstein, Lautenberg and Schumer think those same people are going to cross state lines into New Jersey, New York, or California and become raging, gunslinging, homicidal maniacs?

    Senate Democrats splinter over controversial concealed gun measure 2009

  • As for the rest of it, plus ça change … There may not have been Internet porn, gangsta rap, and violent video games back in the day, but there was porn, and there were the comic books and gunslinging genre fiction that the troops subsisted on.

    Getting Their Guns Off 2010

  • He's a rookie compared with Mr. Burke's other famous character, gunslinging Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, who first appeared in 1971.

    The (Really) Long Goodbye Alexandra Alter 2011

  • When all the gunslinging knuckledraggers are walking the streets with their assault rifles in combat-ready positions, itching to “Kill a Democrat for Jesus”??

    Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee. 2010

  • Though Star Trek is billed as "Wagon Train to the Stars," Firefly actually lives and breathes the Old West through its vernacular, temperament and gunslinging.

    MIND MELD: The Best Genre Crossovers 2010

  • As for the rest of it, plus ça change … There may not have been Internet porn, gangsta rap, and violent video games back in the day, but there was porn, and there were the comic books and gunslinging genre fiction that the troops subsisted on.

    Getting Their Guns Off 2010

  • As for the rest of it, plus ça change … There may not have been Internet porn, gangsta rap, and violent video games back in the day, but there was porn, and there were the comic books and gunslinging genre fiction that the troops subsisted on.

    Getting Their Guns Off 2010

  • I love how transparent Perry was about relaying his coyote-killing tale to a reporter (three months later!), clearly relishing the fact that it would make his Democratic gubernatorial rival Bill White — a "pasty white" Harvard grad "with a bald pate and big ears" who "talks in an even, slow monotone and refrains from gunslinging rhetoric" — look like a total weenie in comparison.

    Rick Perry to Coyote: 'Eat Lead' 2010

  • If all this contradictory gunslinging sounds familiar, it's because we've seen this episode before.

    Rachel Farris: Rick Perry's Secret Plan for Texas Border Security: "Ridiculous" 2010

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