peashooter

noun

pea·​shoot·​er ˈpē-ˌshü-tər How to pronounce peashooter (audio)
: a toy blowgun that uses peas for projectiles

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As a law student in the eighteen-eighties, Matisse lived on the sixth floor of a cheap hotel in Paris and would use a glass peashooter to fire little balls of putty at the hats of people on the street below. — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 Earlier in the decade the Aesthetes had been firing their peashooters at the unbreakable steel and plate-glass facade of American industrial civilization, to little effect. — Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025 All the bikes in the W lineup feature the classic round headlamp, round analog speedometer instrument cluster, round mirrors, a teardrop tank, dual rear suspension, and peashooter exhaust pipes. — New Atlas, 13 Dec. 2025 Guns feel like peashooters before this, which means Diana's hacking mechanic is integral to the gameplay, not optional. — Echo Apsey, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2025 Depending upon backup as a ransomware protection solution is like using a peashooter against a nuclear attack. — Yuen Pin Yeap, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1782, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of peashooter was in 1782

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“Peashooter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peashooter. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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