derringer
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- n a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel
- The President packs a silver-plated derringer in his chest pocket and only leaves his office in an armor-plated Mercedes, using two others as decoys.
- He had used a double-barreled derringer, reloading it at least eight times, to stitch an eleven-shot circle in her back and to pump six shots into her boyfriend.
- With the Texas two-step, fancy fumadiddle and derringer-do They have names like Charlie Horse, Chaps.