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throwaway
adjective
used of a gun unregistered and not capable of being traced, and thus used to place in the vicinity of someone whom the police have shot to justify the shooting US- Then he could be shown a mug shot, given a throwaway gun, and programmed to relive the century-old killing of the Kid[.] — Joseph Wambaugh, The Glitter Dome, p. 42, 1981
- You done that before. Written false reports, put throwaway guns in dead hands. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 328, 1990
- They’d pull a throwaway gun out of their boot, put a bullet in the chamber, and say, “Watch this.” — Yusuf Jah, Uprising, pp. 159–160, 1995
- Police know the slang: “throwaway gun.” A bad cop will keep an untraceable gun stashed in the cruiser in case an arrest goes bad, and the suspected perp who lies dead in the street did not have a weapon. The officer will take the gun and drop it next to the suspected but now deceased dead guy. — Weekly Planet (Saratoga, Florida), 27 March 2003
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