A toy weapon consisting of a small tube out of which dried peas are blown.
Example sentencesExamples
- He's reciting Shakespeare in a talent show but he can't seem to get his lines out - because the gang's pelting him with pea-shooters!
- I'd have got a Bic biro and chewed up bits of paper and spat them through the pen at him like an old pea-shooter.
- This is the second time in about an hour that I've had those pea-shooters pointed at me, and it's really not impressing anyone.
- In awe of your older brother Dane, you shot a pea-shooter at his horse, causing it to throw him and inflict injuries from which he later died.
- Put that real gun back in the counter and let me see the sissy-looking pea-shooter again.