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pistol

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of pistol

a very energetic person

a real pistol, she dances rings around the other performers

Synonyms of pistol

dynamo, fireball, live wire

Words Related to pistol

bootstrapper, go-ahead, go-getter, highflier (or highflyer), hummer, hustler, powerhouse, rustler, self-starter

achiever, comer, dasher

doer, enterpriser

Near Antonyms of pistol

dawdler, idler, loafer, lounger, trifler

clock-watcher, goldbrick, shirker, slacker

couch potato, deadbeat, do-nothing, drone, layabout, lazybones, slouch, slug, slugabed, sluggard

dallier, laggard, lingerer, loiterer, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud

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