Usually means: Old slang for a firearm.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. shooting iron: Merriam-Webster
  2. shooting iron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shooting iron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shooting iron: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shooting iron: Vocabulary.com
  6. shooting-iron, shooting iron: Wordnik
  7. shooting-iron, shooting iron: Wiktionary
  8. shooting iron: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. shooting iron: Dictionary.com
  10. shooting iron: Rhymezone
  11. SHOOTING IRON: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  12. Shooting-iron: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. shooting iron: FreeDictionary.org
  14. shooting iron: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. shooting iron: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shooting iron: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shooting iron: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See shooting_irons as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shooting iron)

▸ noun:  (chiefly US, colloquial, dated) A firearm, especially a handgun.

Similar:
pistol, handgun, side arm, shooting-iron, iron, shooting, paper hunting, gunning, shootynge, heat, more...

Opposite:
unarmed, nonlethal, peaceful, defenseless

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Similar:
pistol, handgun, side arm, shooting-iron, iron, shooting, paper hunting, gunning, shootynge, heat, more...

Opposite:
unarmed, nonlethal, peaceful, defenseless



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