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Synonyms for handgun
ˈhændˌgʌnhand·gun

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Wiktionary1.0 / 2 votes

  1. handgunnoun

    Synonyms:
    pistol

  2. handgunnoun

    A small, hand-held gun with a relatively short barrel.

    Synonyms:
    pistol

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. pistol, handgun, side arm, shooting ironnoun

    a firearm that is held and fired with one hand

    Synonyms:
    side arm, pistol, shooting iron

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  1. burner

    Submitted by rinat on August 14, 2019  

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "handgun":

    sidearm, pistol, gun, fist, revolver, gunpoint

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#7766fist
#14085pistol
#21847revolver
#27995handgun
#64978gunpoint
#138138sidearm

How to use handgun in a sentence?

  1. Bill St. Clair:

    'What good can a handgun do against an army?', is in fact a complex one and must be answered at length and carefully. It is a military question. It is also a political question. But above all it is a moral question which strikes to the heart of what makes men free, and what makes them slaves.

  2. Ibrahim Patrasa:

    Our troops had ran into him while on patrol in the area, we recovered a rifle and a handgun near the area where we found the boy.

  3. Michael Gartner:

    There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

  4. Nathan Gibson:

    It's about handgun safety. My daughters started learning at a young age what a handgun is about and how dangerous it can be.

  5. San Jose Police Department:

    We will correct some misinformation that has been circulating and are releasing images of the fight and struggle over a handgun that occurred inside the La Victoria Restaurant and of the individual who was holding the handgun at the time he was shot by one of our Officers.


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