Synonyms of pistol

pistol 1 of 2

noun

ˈpi-stᵊl 

as in dynamo

a very energetic person

a real pistol, she dances rings around the other performers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dynamo
• powerhouse
• fireball
• live wire
• achiever
• highflyer
• hustler
• hummer
• doer
• self-starter
• go-ahead
• bootstrapper
• comer
• enterpriser
• dasher
• highflier
• go-getter

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• loafer
• idler
• trifler
• lounger
• slug
• couch potato
• dawdler
• drone
• shirker
• slacker
• slouch
• do-nothing
• goldbrick
• deadbeat
• sluggard
• clock-watcher
• layabout
• laggard
• loiterer
• lazybones
• lingerer
• slowpoke
• slugabed
• dallier
• stick-in-the-mud

pistol

2 of 2

verb

as in to shotgun

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shotgun
• fire (at)
• machine-gun
• blast (at)
• gun
• pepper
• tommy-gun
• kill
• destroy
• fell
• blaze
• slay
• snipe (at)
• ice
• dispatch
• potshot
• blow away
• slaughter
• bring down
• massacre
• wipe out
• butcher
• shoot down
• pick off
• drill
• do in
• blot out
• croak
• annihilate
• decimate
• shoot
• plug
• pop
• drop

Examples of pistol in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

The lawyer offered the scenario of a gun dealer who sells a pistol to a suicidal man who then shoots himself. —Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024

The social-media platform now embraces the firearm again as a weapon, not a toy, having replaced the water gun with a cartoon depiction of a semiautomatic pistol. —Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2024

Davis was arrested again in 2021, and charged with unlawful possession of a weapon — allegedly a Taurus pistol and a magazine of ammunition — following a car crash on the Southwest Side. —Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2024

The driver was found with a pistol in his front right pocket and was disarmed. —Jason Wolf, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2024