pawgun

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noun

A handgun, when held in the paw of an animal.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounpawgun (plural pawguns)

plural pawguns

  1. nonce wordfantasyA handgun, when held in the paw of an animal.

    Jal Bolt has invented the seven-shooter, sir, a most prestigious pawgun which will fire seven bullets without reloading.

    2011, Garry Kilworth, Heastward Ho! A Welkin Weasel Adventure
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    She thought that the guy was rude too, so she threw the smoking gun away that she had just used and then pulled out a small pawgun from her pawbag, checked to see if there were any bullets in it.

    2010, Daniel S. Knowles, Rodents on the Prowl, page 674
  2. nonce wordoffensiveslangA handgun, when held by a dehumanized person regarded as animalistic.
    1 more example

    A woman wakes up after being poked by the pawgun held by Jason Donte Hayes. It demands she take it to ATM machine and get it $2,000. The machine only allows her to withdraw $460, and additional transactions are denied. The dumb boon then takes the woman home, wakes the husband, and tells them to to^([sic]) go back to bed, but meet it tomorrow with the additional $1500. The nigger shows up in the same clothes and is cuffed. It has some of the money, and a gold watch it took the night before.

    2016 January 12, Dave Norris, “Teenaper returns for mo' loot...SHEET!”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet)

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

“pawgun.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pawgun. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pawgun,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pawgun.

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