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gunpoke

noun
/ˈɡʌnpəʊk/UK

Etymology

From gun + poke, after cowpoke.

  1. derived from *pukōn✻
  2. derived from poken
  3. derived from poken
  4. inherited from poken
  5. formed as gunpoke — “gun + poke”

Definitions

  1. Someone who carries a gun

    Someone who carries a gun; an armed man.

    • ‘He lets you win a lot of money and sends a gunpoke around to take it back for him.’

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