[
US
/ˈdɛɹəndʒɝ/
]
[ UK /dˈɛɹɪŋɐ/ ]
[ UK /dˈɛɹɪŋɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel
How To Use derringer In A Sentence
- So instead, a 12ga derringer with an 8 ceramic barrel. Grizzly Bear Attacks Alaska Blacktail Hunter
- In court, it was said he loaded the Derringer ‘out of curiosity’ and intended to use it on a shooting range, but never got round to it.
- I'd been to the pistol range the day before and completely forgotten the derringer in the back pocket of my purse.
- But apparently, he already had his left hand on his backup gun, a derringer, in a pocket.
- On this side of the Atlantic, nearly any small pocket pistol is now called a derringer, from Henry Deringer's short-barreled muzzle-loader. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2
- He found a loaded two shot .22 derringer pistol as part of the buckle. What A Load Of Pants! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- The Cowboy howled, stumbling backwards, a nickel-plated Derringer falling from his hand, clattering to the steel deck. CORMORANT
- I slipped the heavy derringer into the holster while the mate watched proudly.
- Officers found an antique, double-barrelled Derringer hidden in a walnut grandfather clock in his bedroom.
- How about a derringer chambered for a 105mm howitzer round. And Now, A Really Manly Handgun