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zip gun; zipper gun
noun
an inexpensive, homemade gun, usually consisting of a tube, a grip, and a rudimentary striking device US- He accused suspects of using daggers, bayonets, ice picks – along with revolvers and what he officially called “zipper guns.” — William Bernard, Jailbait, p. 82, 1949
- — American Speech, May 1951
- Unless they use a zip gun on you someday. — Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, p. 304, 1954
- The best way to use a shive – a knife – and how to make a zip gun that will fire .32 bullets. — Rocky Garciano (with Rowland Barber), Somebody Up There Likes Me, p. 36, 1955
- Bottles, knives, zipguns, tire chains, bricks. — Willard Motely, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 208, 1958
- This is a thirty-seven caliber blank pistol. The only bullets made to fit it are blanks and they can’t be tampered with enough to kill a man. And it hasn’t been made over into a zip gun. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 27, 1959
- I had shot him in the leg with a zip gun in a rumble only a few months earlier. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 16, 1965
- Then the zip guns came out, metal tubes with door latches as firing pins set off by rubber bands – if the pin hit the .22 on the primer and the piece was held close to your head, you were in trouble. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 9, 1975
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