PISTOL Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈpi-stᵊl

Definition of pistol

as in dynamo

a very energetic person a real pistol, she dances rings around the other performers

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Noun

One man allegedly tried to grab a soldier’s pistol as the soldier tried to arrest him for stealing baseball caps in a subway station. — Brad Heath, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026 After searching the property, police said troopers found a pistol hidden near the front entrance and a folding knife nearby. — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026 The officers found a 9 mm pistol in the door pocket on the driver’s side. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Aug. 2026 Police accused Rice of pulling out a pistol and shooting Lytton several times. — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pistol

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Noun

There’s 5-year-old Ara, who has diabetes (a fact the film focuses on with a touch of heavy-handed irony), but is a numbers-crunching dynamo who does Pilates.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
But mostly, the monarch persists because life’s job is to live; because within those thimble-size bodies hides a dynamo of survival that puts our most incredible machines to shame.

— Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026

Definition of dynamo

Verb

There have been sets with three tight ends, formations that start under center and some that use formation shifts to move from a single-back set to shotgun.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Aug. 2026
Westman had decorated the assault rifle and shotgun with hate speech in ways that aligned with the dark underbelly of alt-right meme culture that regularly disparages people of color, Jewish people, the LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities.

— Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025

Definition of shotgun

Verb

The band blasted into a machine-gun pace, waking the entire crowd.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026
And the Israeli army remains a few miles south, its presence marked by the occasional plume of smoke where its artillery hits, and the rip of machine-gun fire.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026

Definition of machine-gun

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“Pistol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pistol. Accessed 28 Aug. 2026.

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