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Gamboler Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
Gun-shooter
This is the dialogue (2 convicts in the Penitentiary):
- Speaking of creeps, there's one I'd like to knock off. Look, he's a gun-shooter, he send me up here.
- Forget it, Joe.
- Even if you knocked him off, they can't fry you in this State.
Is gun-shooter the same as gunslinger? Or is it slang for "cop"? In this movie, the convicts are speaking about the policeman who sent one of them to prison. Now this officer is a prisoner too. While speaking, they see him, because the cop is at the other end of the small Penitentiary yard,
- Speaking of creeps, there's one I'd like to knock off. Look, he's a gun-shooter, he send me up here.
- Forget it, Joe.
- Even if you knocked him off, they can't fry you in this State.
Is gun-shooter the same as gunslinger? Or is it slang for "cop"? In this movie, the convicts are speaking about the policeman who sent one of them to prison. Now this officer is a prisoner too. While speaking, they see him, because the cop is at the other end of the small Penitentiary yard,
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gamboler Is gun-shooter the same as gunslinger? Or is it slang for "cop"? Just a person who does not hesitate to shoot a gun.
- gamboler Is gun-shooter the same as gunslinger?
- Or is it slang for "cop"?
- Just a person who does not hesitate to shoot a gun.
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gambolerIs gun-shooter the same as gunslinger? Or is it slang for "cop"?Just a person who does not hesitate to shoot a gun.
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gambolerSo, is it a term similar to "trigger-happy"?I think that's pretty close, yes.
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