as in dynamo
a very energetic person
a real pistol, she dances rings around the other performers
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Recent Examples of pistol
Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
In the Charger, an AR-style rifle and a Glock pistol with a switch that turned it into a fully automatic weapon were found.
—arkansasonline.com, 23 Mar. 2026
Among his favorite methods of doing so are sitting in audience members’ laps, singing along to ’80s hits, clutching a giant prop baby bottle and doing pistol squats.
—Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2026
Most are armed with M17 pistols or M4 rifles.
—Steven Beynon, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Seeking to strengthen the state’s gun laws, a key legislative committee voted Tuesday to ban pistols that can be converted easily into automatic machine guns.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
In the Charger, an AR-style rifle and a Glock pistol with a switch that turned it into a fully automatic weapon were found.
—arkansasonline.com, 23 Mar. 2026
Among his favorite methods of doing so are sitting in audience members’ laps, singing along to ’80s hits, clutching a giant prop baby bottle and doing pistol squats.
—Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2026
Most are armed with M17 pistols or M4 rifles.
—Steven Beynon, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pistol
Noun
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Article continues below Some scientists had wondered whether the sun's magnetic dynamo was situated in a narrow near-surface layer, or perhaps extends throughout the entire convective layer.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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Gillis was omnipresent at her son’s Detroit events — a small dynamo of a woman who was always around for big moments at his Third Man Records complex and backstage at his shows, going back to his White Stripes days in the ’90s and ’00s.—
Brian McCollum,
Freep.com,
15 Mar. 2026
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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
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Police said three of the guns had been reported stolen, and one handgun was equipped with a machine-gun conversion device.—
Sergio Candido,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Their recording was a kinetic thrashathon with machine-gun-fast guitar notes and solos and Hetfield’s convincing screams for mercy.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Pistol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pistol. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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