单词 | pistol-whip |
释义 | pistol-whipv. Originally and chiefly U.S. transitive. To strike or beat (a person) with the butt of a pistol. Also in early use: to threaten (a person) with a pistol. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of striking with specific blunt weapon > strike with specific blunt weapon [verb (transitive)] mellc1440 wapper1481 bebat1565 rib-roast1570 batonc1580 flail1582 club1593 bastonate1596 cudgel1598 rib-baste1598 shrub1599 truncheon1600 cut1607 scutch1611 macea1634 batoon1683 towel1705 quarterstaff1709 pole1728 handspike1836 blackjack1847 bludgeon1868 sandbag1887 cosh1922 sap1926 pistol-whip1930 knuckle-dust1962 1930 Amer. Speech 6 133 Pistol-whip, threaten with a pistol. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §322/5 Pistol-whip, to strike with the butt of a pistol. 1952 Sun (Baltimore) 4 July 42/8 The two young Negroes pitched into him and the one with the gun pistol-whipped the physician. 1965 J. Philips Twisted People i. iv. 88 She'd been subjected to about the worst beating I've ever seen. Pistol whipped is my guess. 1977 J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) xiv. 322 Let a cop get pistol-whipped instead of a clerk. 1994 Amer. Spectator Nov. 38/2 [He] was..pistol-whipped so severely he had to be hospitalized. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1930 |
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