1. a toy weapon that shoots small objects like peas or pellets through a tube by blowing
2. 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.