: a toy gun that usually shoots a cork and produces a popping sound
Examples of popgun in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebToo much popgun and too little pop.—BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2021 But history will recall that the flight occurred more than 60 years after Alan Shepard flew the same popgun trajectory aboard his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, becoming the first American in space.—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 July 2021 Compared to California, Florida’s economy is a popgun.—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021 Its popgun cartridge was not much more than a pistol round.—David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 22 Jan. 2019
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