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- noun A toy gun for children with bullets in paper caps.
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Examples
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"One of the greatest looming fears for bonds, inflation, appeared to come in the form of a cap-gun versus the expected AK-47," said Kevin Giddis , president of fixed income capital markets at Morgan Keegan Inc. in Memphis, Tenn.
CPI Data Buoy Treasurys Min Zeng 2011
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As I slowly bend my arm down and to the left, a Pow! reverberates like a muted cap-gun shot up and down Blue John Canyon.
127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004
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As I slowly bend my arm down and to the left, a Pow! reverberates like a muted cap-gun shot up and down Blue John Canyon.
127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004
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As I slowly bend my arm down and to the left, a Pow! reverberates like a muted cap-gun shot up and down Blue John Canyon.
127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004
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As I slowly bend my arm down and to the left, a Pow! reverberates like a muted cap-gun shot up and down Blue John Canyon.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place Aron Ralston 2004
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On the word go, or a cap-gun blast, guests try to pass the orange to the next teammate in line, chin to chin.
Swell Holiday Cynthia Rowley 2003
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On the word go, or a cap-gun blast, guests try to pass the orange to the next teammate in line, chin to chin.
Swell Holiday Cynthia Rowley 2003
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On the word go, or a cap-gun blast, guests try to pass the orange to the next teammate in line, chin to chin.
Swell Holiday Cynthia Rowley 2003
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I also have less of an issue with water guns, than I do with the bang-bang cap-gun or pistol variety.
Prague Monitor 2010
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The tweet went out to her seven followers, which is a cap-gun snap compared to the atomic number of followers that celebrities and other media personalities can command on a daily basis.
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