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Six-gun

Definition: Six-gun

Six-gun

Noun

1. A pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets).

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

Synonyms: Six-gun

Synonyms: revolver (n), six-shooter (n). (additional references)

Modern Usage: Six-gun

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Six-Gun Music (1949)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Six-gun

Domain	Title
Books	Six-gun in cheek : an affectionate guide to the "worst" in western fiction (reference) Six-Gun Sideshow (The Gunsmith, No 90) (reference) Six-Gun Bride of the Teton Bunch and Seven Other Action-Packed Stories of the Wild West (Barricade Classic Western) (reference) A Six-Gun Salute: An Illustrated History of the Houston Colt .45S, 1962-1964 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Image Slideshow: Six-gun

Photo Album: Six-gun

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Firing a six-gun salvo from her forward 16"/50 gun turrets, during her shakedown, circa August 1944. Note six 16-inch projectiles in the air at right, and concussion effect on the water alongside the ship. Photographed by Arthur Stratham. Credit: NAVY.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Modern Translation: Six-gun

Language		Translations for "six-gun"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		六枪. (various references)

Korean		여섯 총. (various references)

Pig Latin		ix-gunsay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings: Six-gun

Misspellings
	"Six-gun" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ui-gyun. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Six-gun

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-i-n-s-u-x"
	-1 letter: suing, using.
	-2 letters: gins, gnus, guns, sign, sing, snug, sung.
	-3 letters: gin, gnu, gun, ins, nix, nus, sin, six, sun, uns, xis.
	-4 letters: in, is, nu, si, un, us, xi, xu.
	Words containing the letters "g-i-n-s-u-x"
	+2 letters: excusing, unsexing.
	+3 letters: expulsing, suffixing, surtaxing.
	+4 letters: autosexing, exhausting, extinguish, sextupling.
	+5 letters: foxhuntings, juxtaposing, sexualizing.
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Alternative Orthography: Six-gun

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 69 78 2D 67 75 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101001 01111000 00101101 01100111 01110101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#105 &#120 &#45 &#103 &#117 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0069 0078 002D 0067 0075 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53759015738780

Non-English Dictionaries with "Six-gun"

Language	Coverage	Language Translations
Chinese	字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译	汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , 중국
Korean	사� �, � �의, 번역	韩国语, �"國 , 朝鮮語 , 한국
English	Dictionary, Definition, Translation	英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , 영국

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial

5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations

9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography

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