Definitions

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  • adjective Without bullets.

Etymologies

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bullet +‎ -less

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Examples

  • To see some samples of bulletless PowerPoint visit www.

    Don't blame PowerPoint Clive Shepherd 2007

  • Gainesville by jumping some blue coats in a cantina hundreds of miles and more than a year away from where they had been forced to admit, at last, that bulletless carbines and bare feet could not keep on shooting and marching.

    Rebel Spurs Andre Norton 1958

  • Our problem now, and the government's, is that while we may be ready for a bloodless, bulletless, conscription - and rationing-free wartime economy, we need a foe.

    Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • The Chiefs currently have a bulletless Gun leading the defense, and an offense that features a pistol and a shotgun.

    MVN 2008

  • Now the Malians are running with bulletless guns, each man shouting "Boom!

    Letter from Timbuktu Merrill, Austin 2007

  • "It blinds and stupefies without killing -- a bulletless revolver intended to check and render harmless the criminal instead of maiming him.

    Constance Dunlap 1908

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