noun
- a toy weapon that shoots small objects like peas or pellets through a tube by blowing
- a small, weak, or ineffective weapon or gun
Usage: informal
Examples
- The children made peashooters from hollow reeds.
- He aimed his peashooter at the tin cans lined up on the fence.
- The old peashooter could barely shoot a pea across the yard.
- She called the small pistol a peashooter compared to a rifle.
- The security guard’s peashooter wouldn’t stop a determined intruder.
- They used dried peas as ammunition for their homemade peashooters.