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• n  a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)

• Back in the Texas of the 1890s, when the pen was not always mightier than the six-shooter, Editor William Cowper Brann grew so bitter about sham and injustice that he longed for .
• Suddenly every actor in Italy was sitting short in the saddle and mowing down the bad guys with twelve shots from his six-shooter.
• According to Lyndon, Moursund keeps a six-shooter in the glove compartment of his Lincoln and is fast on the draw.

• revolver
• six-gun

News & Articles

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• After 21 years, Horn Island park ranger retiring, may not be replaced
  For him, the National Park Service baseball hat works better than the traditional wide-brim ranger hat. And over the years, his belt has grown from holding a six-shooter, a baton and a simple radio to holding 20 pounds of equipment, including a Taser, a semi-automatic handgun and other regulation police gear.
  June 30, 2013 - The Biloxi Sun Herald

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Washington Post
  She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsman, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley,Obama said, invoking the famed Wild West female sharpshooter. "She's packing a six-shooter....
• Kelsey Grammer in BuddyTV
  I rehearsed every night at home with a six-shooter and I bought five alarm clocks and I set them at different times during the evening and when one would go off, I'd come out of the leather,Grammer stated. "So I got this reflex down pretty...