as in dynamo
a very energetic person
a real pistol, she dances rings around the other performers
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Recent Examples of pistol
Barbara A. Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
On the afternoon of the shooting, Calonge was seen in front of a gym at Jackson Avenue and McKee Road holding what a 911 caller said was a pistol.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2025
While searching his apartment, officers also found a shipping receipt for a FedEx package sent to Phoenix that contained three cell phones and a Taurus 9mm pistol with an extended magazine.
—Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 14 Apr. 2025
Because whatever your opinion on Brit’s behavior (yes, the pistol comment was wild), no one deserves this kind of public humiliation—especially not during someone else’s ribbon-cutting ceremony.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 14 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Leaving the Capitol in 1835, Jackson saw an assailant approach him with drawn pistols.
—Barbara A. Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
On the afternoon of the shooting, Calonge was seen in front of a gym at Jackson Avenue and McKee Road holding what a 911 caller said was a pistol.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2025
While searching his apartment, officers also found a shipping receipt for a FedEx package sent to Phoenix that contained three cell phones and a Taurus 9mm pistol with an extended magazine.
—Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 14 Apr. 2025
Because whatever your opinion on Brit’s behavior (yes, the pistol comment was wild), no one deserves this kind of public humiliation—especially not during someone else’s ribbon-cutting ceremony.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pistol
dynamo
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Porter was also a dynamo on special teams, indicative of his athletic gifts, blocking a punt in each of the past four seasons (and one field goal last year) and finishing his collegiate career with 18 tackles.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Apr. 2025
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The 2023 World Team Champion and tumbling dynamo joins a surging #8 Arkansas Razorbacks squad in 2025.—
Caroline Price,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Pistol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pistol. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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