water pistol
noun
: a toy pistol designed to squirt a jet of liquid
called also water gun, squirt gun
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Last summer, images of local Barcelona residents shooting water pistols at tourists went viral around the world.
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Gawon Bae, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
In 2024, Barcelona made headlines when some protesters sprayed tourists with water pistols.
—AFAR Media, 15 Aug. 2025
They're cast as hard-rock goofballs who take a radio station hostage with water pistols filled with hot sauce to get their demo tape played.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 July 2025
First Venice, then Barcelona — where tourists of all stripes are now routinely hosed down in protest by locals armed with water pistols — have in the course of falling victim to the effects of mass tourism, become the poster-child towns of the resistance to the erosion of culture.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
There were also many marchers with water pistols who didn’t fire at bystanders, using them instead to cool themselves.
—Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025
In a Gurnee incident last April, Gurnee police said some students wore ski masks and entered a restaurant with water pistols, targeting other students dining in there.
—Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2025
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Gawon Bae, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
In 2024, Barcelona made headlines when some protesters sprayed tourists with water pistols.
—AFAR Media, 15 Aug. 2025
They're cast as hard-rock goofballs who take a radio station hostage with water pistols filled with hot sauce to get their demo tape played.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 July 2025
First Venice, then Barcelona — where tourists of all stripes are now routinely hosed down in protest by locals armed with water pistols — have in the course of falling victim to the effects of mass tourism, become the poster-child towns of the resistance to the erosion of culture.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
There were also many marchers with water pistols who didn’t fire at bystanders, using them instead to cool themselves.
—Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025
In a Gurnee incident last April, Gurnee police said some students wore ski masks and entered a restaurant with water pistols, targeting other students dining in there.
—Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2025
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“Water pistol.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/water%20pistol. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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