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Saturday night special
noun- an inexpensive handgun, usually small calibre US, 1968
- “This cat is packing a Saturday-night special,” someone said. — Charles Whited, Chiodo, p. 60, 1973
- Dough-Boy probably told you I don’t carry any Saturday Night Specials or crap like that. — Taxi Driver, 1976
- It might have been better for him if Pedro’s Saturday night special had left him dead. — Piri Thomas, Stories from El Barrio, p. 101, 1978
- “What kind of gun is that?” “No kind,” Walter said. “Guy shoots the president of the United States with a fucking Saturday-night special.” — Elmore Leonard, Split Images, p. 77, 1981
- Last year it was Saturday Night Specials, now it’s heavy stuff. — 48 Hours, 1982
- in computing, a program designed under intense time restraints US
- — Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker’s Dictionary, p. 313, 1991
- a hospital patient who regularly appears in the casualty department at weekends in search of food and a bed US
- — Maledicta, p. 6, Summer/Winter 1978: “Common patient-directed pejoratives used by medical ”personnel
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