pellet gun

noun

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Instead, the birds’ injuries appear to have been caused by a pellet gun, BB gun or a slingshot. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2025 Wells told social media newswire Storyful the bear was stuck in the car for almost two and a half hours before her husband shot the driver's window with a pellet gun so the bear could get out. Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 7 May 2025 Cops then linked the vehicle to a spate of similar attacks the day before that in which five Hasidic Jewish victims were shot with a pellet gun in the same area, and determined the perpetrators were the same in both incidents, according to the source. Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025 Police also released photos of the pellet gun Nyah allegedly had when he was fatally shot. Edward Harris, USA TODAY, 30 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for pellet gun

Word History

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pellet gun was in 1952

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“Pellet gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pellet%20gun. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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