Definitions for popguns

popguns pop·gun

Spelling: [pop-guhn]
IPA: /ˈpɒpˌgʌn/

Popguns is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in popguns (gnoppsu).

Definitions for popguns

noun

  1. a child's toy gun from which a pellet is shot by compressed air, producing a loud pop.

Origin of popguns

First recorded in 1655-65; pop1 + gun1

Examples for popguns

She sighted the Maud Mary at once, and fired some sort of popgun to arrest us.

Rafael remembered his popgun,—a frail weapon, but it served.

Let me take your popgun, mate, he said, extending his hand toward Henry.

Wy yer might as well talk of a popgun a holding its own with a Krupp.

It is not a 'big bird' but, after all, I only shoot with a popgun.

It was like trying to storm a medieval fortress with a popgun.

The popgun of the little Theophilus could never have been heard!

They're jest waitin' fer us to trail on between them, when every man'll let fly with his popgun.

And they went to find a popgun, or something, and the service was so very long, you know.

Grace skedaddled, as consistency required; but with a popgun over her shoulder.

Word Value for popguns
Scrable

11

Words with friends

16

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