|
Forum Rules | Firearms Safety | Firearms Photos | Links | Library | Lost Password | Email Changes |
Register | FAQ | Calendar | Today's Posts | Search |
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
March 23, 2018, 09:08 PM | #1 |
Senior Member
Join Date: April 18, 2016
Posts: 106
|
Favorite slang gun terms?
Hello all,
Every once in a while, as I peruse this forum, I encounter a slang term for "gun" or "firearm" that I find eminently amusing. Unfortunately, I haven't collected them or written them down anywhere, so I keep forgetting them. What's your favorite slang term for a gun? Of the ones I can remember, I think "front-stuffer" is my favorite (for a muzzleloader). Carmike |
March 23, 2018, 10:47 PM | #2 |
Senior Member
Join Date: December 30, 2015
Location: My back yard
Posts: 971
|
1911, Fight Stopper.
|
March 23, 2018, 10:47 PM | #3 |
Senior Member
Join Date: December 28, 2009
Location: North Central Illinois
Posts: 2,710
|
I have one I absolutely hate. "Peace". Or is it "Piece"? Piece of what?
|
March 23, 2018, 10:54 PM | #4 |
Senior Member
Join Date: March 23, 2008
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Posts: 2,126
|
A 'gat'.
A 'roscoe'. |
March 23, 2018, 11:11 PM | #5 |
Staff
Join Date: September 25, 2008
Location: CONUS
Posts: 18,468
|
Old slabsides. (1911)
|
March 24, 2018, 11:21 AM | #6 |
Senior Member
Join Date: September 22, 2012
Location: Marriottsville, Maryland
Posts: 1,739
|
'Trench broom' - The famous Winchester Model 1897 shotgun.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war...7-shotgun.html '9' - A nine millimeter pistol 'Boomstick' 'Heater' "Smoke pole' - A BP firearm 'Smelly' - SMLE Lee Enfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Enfield 'Ma Duce' - Browning M2 50 caliber Machine Gun 'Angel King' - Code word for AK --- in the 'Lord of War' movie...starring Nicholas Cage 'Chicago Typewriter', 'The Chopper' - Thompson Submachine gun
__________________
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." --- George Orwell Last edited by Erno86; March 24, 2018 at 12:30 PM. |
March 24, 2018, 11:48 AM | #7 |
Senior Member
Join Date: October 22, 2016
Posts: 3,888
|
That's my favorite. "Look at that polished nickel High Point... what a nice piece."
__________________
"We always think there's gonna be more time... then it runs out."
|
March 24, 2018, 01:21 PM | #8 |
Senior Member
Join Date: January 4, 2016
Posts: 757
|
"All 1911's aside" instead of "all jokes aside"
|
March 24, 2018, 04:26 PM | #9 |
Senior Member
Join Date: August 31, 2016
Location: Texas
Posts: 379
|
Seems like there was a thread on this a while back, but I can't find it now. I've heard "ratchet" for a revolver. I've seen "biscuit" in old fiction (think Dashiel Hammet) used for any handgun.
|
March 24, 2018, 04:43 PM | #10 |
Senior Member
Join Date: March 15, 2015
Location: Michigan
Posts: 311
|
I have herd that in PA they call a 760-7600rem pump rifle a (Amish machine gun ) !!!
|
March 24, 2018, 05:56 PM | #11 |
Junior Member
Join Date: March 13, 2014
Posts: 7
|
Skin that smokewagon (draw your pistol). From the movie Tombstone,
|
March 24, 2018, 05:59 PM | #12 |
Member
Join Date: March 24, 2013
Posts: 31
|
Wheel Gun- Revolver
Bottom Feeder- Magazine Fed Gun Tupperware- Polymer Gun |
March 24, 2018, 06:27 PM | #13 |
Senior Member
Join Date: June 15, 2008
Location: Georgia
Posts: 10,809
|
When speaking to my wife when others are present that don't need to know I'm carrying I'll sometimes refer to a gun as a nug. Gun spelled backwards.
Picked that up from an old episode of M*A*S*H when Frank Burns is armed when he isn't supposed to be and he used the term to inform Margret. It started as a joke, but has become a useful technique for us to communicate around grandkids and others.
__________________
"If you're still doing things the same way you were doing them 10 years ago, you're doing it wrong" Winston Churchill |
March 24, 2018, 11:03 PM | #14 |
Senior Member
Join Date: April 18, 2016
Posts: 106
|
I did look for any old threads, but I couldn't find one. I just discovered this "general" forum (I usually get stuck at the top in the revolver and lever forums), so I'm not surprised I missed it.
And jmr40, be careful when referring to 'nug.' Where I come from, that's marijuana...."Well, yes, officer, I do have nug in my pocket, but I'm licensed to carry it." |
March 25, 2018, 03:37 AM | #15 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 29, 2010
Location: Hampstead NC
Posts: 1,450
|
Quote:
|
|
March 25, 2018, 12:36 PM | #16 |
Staff
Join Date: March 11, 2006
Location: Upper US
Posts: 28,839
|
It surprises me that no one has yet said..
"Hawgleg" = SA revolver Just what are you kids reading/watching these days,that you missed that one??? some of the slang terms are historical, some are amusingly descriptive, some are even sarcastic. And some are just juvenile. Sometimes we know pretty well where the term originates, sometimes, we can only guess. Two terms I put in the juvenile class are "shotty" - referring to any shotgun, and "Deagle" - referring to the Desert Eagle pistol. I'm unsure where "shotty" originated, but "DEagle" came from a video game which didn't have enough characters in its weapon name slot to write Desert Eagle, so the wrote DEagle. Gat - probably comes from Gatling gun, and meant revolvers, due to the similarity of revolving parts. Also became used at a time when semi autos were not very common civilian guns, so by extension, used for all handguns. Roscoe, and Heater are, like Gat, terms from the 20s/30s or possibly earlier. Ma Deuce is the M2 .50 cal machine gun (not Duce) And tis "combat Tupperware" a sarcastic reference to polymer frame pistols. Tupperware, (only) is something I use in my kitchen "Bottom feeder" refers to semi auto pistols (where the magazine goes in from the bottom). Wheelgun - revolver.."wheelies" -from the same kids who say "shotty".. "the Mighty Mattel" - Vietnam era slang for the M16 Crank and Yank - SA revolver shooting Spray and pray - unaimed rapid fire "piece" most likely, originally comes from "piece of ordnance" "mousegun" - small size, small caliber pistol Racegun - heavily customized pistol used for competition shooting where speed is a factor. "Bellygun" - short barrel pistol (usually revolver) meant for close range defense (belly to belly distance, etc.) there are lots of them, most I can't think of, right now... and then there are personal names for guns... My first deer rifle, I nicknamed "Killdeer" after Hawkeye's gun in Last of the Mohicans... because, well, it DID! Back in 1980, I got a Browning BDA .45. One of my friends took to calling it "Alice". Said the initials BDA stood for "Big Dirty Alice". I wasn't thrilled, but my wife found the name amusing, and ever since, that gun has been "Alice". Works very well when needing to refer to the gun without others knowing. "have you seen Alice lately?" is our "code" for if I am carrying...
__________________
All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better. |
March 25, 2018, 02:16 PM | #17 |
Junior Member
Join Date: March 23, 2018
Posts: 11
|
A piece or a heater.
|
March 25, 2018, 02:26 PM | #18 |
Senior Member
Join Date: September 22, 2012
Location: Marriottsville, Maryland
Posts: 1,739
|
"Hitler's buzzsaw"
"Hitler's buzzsaw" - "Giving rise to the MG 42's nickname, with the distinctive sound caused by the high cyclic firing rate."
"Spandau" - "By British troops, a traditional generic term for all German machine guns, where the majority were made in Spandau, Germany." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_42
__________________
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." --- George Orwell |
March 26, 2018, 03:11 AM | #19 |
Senior Member
Join Date: January 26, 2018
Posts: 380
|
My favorite is "Nasal Decongestant from Hell" about the NAA mini revolver, printed in a Guns & Ammo magazine.
I called the weapon "The Loud Knife" as you almost had to touch someone to hit them. "Artillery" = pistol I had a supervisor ask me once if I was "packing heat." I had never been in that motel when I wasn't armed, including when I was delivering pizzas 25 years before. LOL |
March 26, 2018, 12:59 PM | #20 |
Senior Member
Join Date: February 13, 2002
Location: Canada
Posts: 12,453
|
Shootin' iron. Geezuz, ya'll are young. snicker.
"Shotty" originated on internet forums. Mattel, in the late 50's/early 60's, was probably the biggest and most experienced plastics extrusion companies on the planet. And it's 'A Chopper', not 'The Chopper'. "...there was a thread on this a while back..." At least once per annum on every forum.
__________________
Spelling and grammar count! |
March 26, 2018, 04:13 PM | #21 |
Member
Join Date: January 6, 2013
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 43
|
I liked "heater" from old gangster movies, and "firestick" that was a term a Native American used from some old Western I saw a thousand years ago. And didn't Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies say to Jed "git yer shootin' iron"?
|
March 26, 2018, 05:09 PM | #22 |
Senior Member
Join Date: April 12, 2010
Location: Lake Martin, AL
Posts: 3,311
|
...
One of my favorites: Quad Fifty, It was a gun truck we had in Nam as part of our security which had a WWII matched up four 50 calibers which were then used as an anti-aircraft gun. Last edited by Evan Thomas; March 26, 2018 at 05:41 PM. Reason: Let's not drag politics into this. |
March 26, 2018, 05:13 PM | #23 |
Senior Member
Join Date: October 9, 2004
Location: Kennewick, WA
Posts: 293
|
My least favorite shooting slang term is "boolits", instead of bullets or projectiles. It reinforces the liberal snobs opinions of us as dumb country Hicks too stupid to know what is good for us.
__________________
NRA Endowment Member |
March 26, 2018, 05:31 PM | #24 |
Senior Member
Join Date: July 31, 2000
Location: Middle Peninsula, VA
Posts: 1,588
|
Scattergun
|
March 26, 2018, 05:47 PM | #25 |
Senior Member
Join Date: March 2, 2017
Posts: 1,868
|
I think I know all of them but I don't like them and I don't use them. Problem is some one new to shooting can be left with not a clue what is being talked about. Same with a lot of slang words. One had me stumped for a long time before I finally found out what it meant. Don't even remember it any more. You'll find most time's I won't even use well known abbreviations without writing it first. Example would be Max Point Blank Range. How many new people would have an idea what that was if i just wrote MPBR? I find the use of abbreviation's and slang appalling! Probably because there are time's I haven't a clue what someone is talking about with their newly invented slang word or abbreviation! Rant over! :-)
|
|
|