a small gun that you can hold and fire with one hand:
an automatic pistol * a starting pistol (= used to signal the start of a race)
seealsoWATERPISTOL
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, pistol is tagged as noun.
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