hoplophobic

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adjective

Having an irrational fear of guns.

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Meanings

adjectivehoplophobic (comparative more hoplophobic, superlative most hoplophobic)

comparative more hoplophobic · superlative most hoplophobic

  1. derogatoryrareHaving an irrational fear of guns.
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    Within days Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association — America’s largest gun-control outfit — showed up on Katie Couric’s smugly hoplophobic NBC “Today” show, “debating” all-guns-to-the-state Congressman Charles Schumer on a typically heads-they-win-tales-we-lose question: whether it is federal or only local authorities who should “mandate” gun locks.

    1999, Vin Suprynowicz, Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993–1998, Mountain Media, →ISBN, page 375, →ISBN

Origin

First attested in 1999: hoplophobia + -ic or hoplophobe + -ic.

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hoplophobic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hoplophobic

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Chicago

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