Holster

Definition: Holster

Holster

Noun

1. A sheath for a handgun; usually leather.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "holster" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references)

Crosswords: Holster

That Jeff Butler doesn't have all his brains in his holster (Union Pacific; writing credit: Ernest Haycox; Jack Cunningham)

So do I, longer than you, and I never had to take my gun out of its holster once (Magnum Force; writing credit: Harry Julian Fink; Rita M. Fink)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Theater & Movies

• Advanced Western Holster Making (reference)

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High Tech

• Pentax SLR Holster Bag (reference)

• Samsonite Worldproof 2.1 Khaki/Black SLR Holster Bag (reference)

• Game Boy Advance Shoulder Holster (reference)

• Game Gear Holster Case (reference)

• Micro Holster Car Holder Cradlefor Palm M100/m105 (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Mag Instrument M2A03H AA Red Holster Combo Pack Flashlight (reference)

• Stabila 25100H 10" Die-Cast Rare Earth Magnetic Level with Holster (reference)

• Custom Leathercraft 5020 Cordless Drill Holster (reference)

• Mag Instrument AM2A056 Nylon Full Flap Holster for AA (reference)

• Skillers 9710 Right-Handed Drill Holster (Attaches to Velcro Loop) (reference)

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Two Soviet Navy officers talking with a member of the boat group from USS Talladega (APA-208) on the beach at Yokohama, 2 September 1945. Talladega was then landing troops from the U.S. Army's First Cavalry Division for occupation duty in Japan. Note pistol holster worn by Soviet officer at left. Credit: NAVY.

Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, USN, Commander U.S. Naval Forces Far East (at left), is greeted at Wonsan airfield by Major General Field Harris, USMC, Commanding General of the First Marine Air Wing, 19 October 1950. Elements of the Wing had arrived at Wonsan by air on 13-17 October. Flight operations were sustained by aerial resupply until the landing beaches were opened on 26 October. Note MGen. Harris' shoulder holster and ammunition for a .38 caliber revolver. Credit: NAVY.

Lieutenant Commander Roger W. Mehle, Commander Air Group 28, reports the results of an air strike on Tinian to Captain Stuart H. Ingersoll, Commanding Officer of USS Monterey (CVL-26), in one of the carrier's ready rooms, 11 June 1944. Note LCdr. Mehle's shoulder holster (marked "U.S.") and revolver. Credit: NAVY.

Japanese and U.S. officers negotiate the surrender of Mili Atoll, Marshalls, on board USS Levy (DE-162), 22 August 1945. Identified U.S. officers present include (from left to right): Commander H.E. Cross; Captain H. B. Grow, USNR, senior U.S. officer present; Commander W.C. Burkhard; Lieutenant P.S. Breck, Jr.; Commander C.G. Olson; Japanese officers in center include an unidentified junior officer, at left, and Japanese Navy Captain Masanori Shiga. Note pistol shoulder holster worn by U.S. officer in right foreground, fancy rope decoration on stanchions, metal wardroom chairs and steward in right background. Credit: NAVY.

Stands beside his plane, a General Motors FM-2 "Wildcat" fighter, on board USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73), 1 August 1944. Note pinup art and nickname "Smokey's Lucky Witch" adorning the engine cowling; what appears to be a Composite Squadron Ten (VC-10) insignia below the cockpit windshield; plane numbers ("27") in white on the wing leading edge and and in black under the lip of the cowling; and Ensign's Bennett's flight gear and .45 caliber M1911A1 pistol carried in a shoulder holster. Credit: NAVY.

Young farm boy. Younger brother trying to make a holster from the leather of an old coat. Oregon, Jackson County, near Medford. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cowboy or cowgirl drawing gun from holster. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He loosened the gun in the holster.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Human Rights

Slovak Republic

The police officer involved was dismissed for violating the law by interrogating the Rom alone when he had access to a gun; the officer committed suicide in. Independent investigators reconstructed the event and determined that it was unlikely that the Rom in custody was able to remove the gun from the police officer's holster. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "holster": shoulder holster. Additional references.

Ending with "holster": shoulder-holster.

Albanian

këllëf revoleje. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قراب المسدس. (various references)

Bulgarian 

кобур (sheath). (various references)

Czech

pouzdro na pistoli. (various references)

Danish

vaabenhylster (gun-case), planelektrodeholder for een elektrode, gevaertaske (gun-case). (various references)

Dutch

holster (gun-case), prentlaselektrodehouder (any fixture in which one or more electrodes are mounted), foedraal voor wapens (gun-case), enkelvoudige doordruklaselektrodehouder. (various references)

Farsi 

جلدچرمی هفت تیروتپانجه , جلد (Case, Copy, Cover, Epidermis, Jacket, Nimble, Quick, Sheath, Sheathe, Shell, Skin, Tome, Volume, Yare). (various references)

Finnish

käsnäelektrodinpidin yhtä elektrodia varten. (various references)

French

gaine pour arme, étui de revolver. (various references)

German

pistolentasche, pistolenhalfter. (various references)

Greek 

πιστολοθήκη, θήκη όπλου (gun-case). (various references)

Hebrew 

� רתיק לאק�"ח, � רתיק (case, sheath, wallet). (various references)

Hungarian

pisztolytáska (pistol-holster, revolver case). (various references)

Indonesian

sarung pistol. (various references)

Italian

fondina (case), custodia per armi (gun-case). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ホモ牛乳 (German cow race, holiday, Holstein, homogenized milk, horizon, horror). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ホルスター . (various references)

Korean 

권총휴대 주머니. (various references)

Manx

currey. (various references)

Norwegian

hylster. (various references)

Pig Latin

olsterhay.(various references)

Portuguese

estojo para arma (gun-case), corpo do eléctrodo para uma só ponta de eléctrodo, coldre (case). (various references)

Romanian

toc (case, casement, casing, cover, feather, housing, knock, pen, penholder, plume, sheath, smack, stalk, tap), cobur (pistol case), buzunar (fob, pocket, poke). (various references)

Russian 

кобура. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

futrola za pistolj. (various references)

Spanish

pistolera. (various references)

Swedish

pistolhölster, elektrodsäte för en elektrod. (various references)

Turkish

tabanca kılıfı, kuburluk. (various references)

Ukrainian

станина (bed, carcass, casing, entablature, entablement), кобура. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "holster": holstered, holstering, holsters. (additional references)

Words ending with "holster": reupholster, upholster. (additional references)

Words containing "holster": reupholstered, reupholstering, reupholsters, upholstered, upholsterer, upholsterers, upholsteries, upholstering, upholsters, upholstery. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Holster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chalstrey, Dolstar, halser, Helsturm, Holscher, Holsoe, holst, Holte, holter, hoogsteen, hopster, Hossmer, hosteg, hoster, Hulsta, hulster, huster. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hostler.

-1 letter: helots, horste, hostel, hotels, ostler, others, reshot, sterol, tholes, throes.

-2 letters: ethos, helos, helot, herls, heros, hoers, holes, holts, horse, horst, hosel, hotel, lehrs, lores, loser, orles, other, roles, roset, rotes, rotls, sheol, shoer, shore, shorl, short, shote, sloth, sorel, stole, store, telos, thole, those, throe, toles, tores, torse.

-3 letters: eros, erst, eths.

+1 letter: brothels, chortles, holsters, hosteler, hostelry, hostlers, loathers, ratholes, throstle, whortles.

+2 letters: aeroliths, chelators, chlorates, chlorites, chortlers, clothiers, ghostlier, heliports, helotries, holstered, horsetail, hostelers, hosteller, hoteliers, plethoras, portholes, reclothes, regoliths, rhyolites, southerly, thornless, threshold, throstles, throttles, trehalose, trochleas, upholster, worthless.

+3 letters: betrothals, cerecloths, charlottes, chrysolite, chrysotile, harlotries, hellbroths, holstering, horsetails, hostellers, hostelries, isothermal, larghettos, motherless, orchestral, orthoclase, overlights, potholders, rheologist, rhodolites, shoplifter, splotchier, thimerosal, thresholds, throttlers, tracheoles, trehaloses, trochlears, turophiles, upholsters, upholstery.