| 词汇 | pistol-whip |
| 词源 | pistol-whip. This was not originally a gangster expression. Pistol-whip is first recorded in the U.S. West in 1940 where it meant to beat someone with the barrel, not the butt, of a gun— it took too long to get a grip on the barrel in a fight. |
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