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hogleg

noun

Etymology

From hog + leg.

  1. derived from *lagjaz✻
  2. derived from leggr — “leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”
  3. inherited from leg
  4. compounded as hogleg — “hog + leg”

Definitions

  1. Any large-caliber handgun, typically with a long barrel.

    • A plain-clothes man with his coat off and his hog's leg looking like a fire plug against his ribs took one eye off his evening paper […].
    • Well I been a-ridin' shotgun on the Houston-Dallas stage / I got me a sawed-off hogleg, twenty is the number gauge / I'd shoot anybody, that would try to stop this ride / A lot of outlaws tried it, a lot of outlaws died.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA