gun-slinger n.
1. (US, also gun-slammer) a gunman, esp. in the (fictional) ‘Wild West’; thus gun-slinger n.
Robbers’ Roost 142: I’m only a wandering rider—a gunslinger and—a member of a gang of robbers. | ||
(con. 1870s) Triggernometry (1957) 53: Hardin, his rival in the Smoky Seventies for top-honours at gun-slinging. | ||
Sudden Takes the Trail 146: Bah! Yo’re finished – that gun-slinger has licked you every time. | ||
Breed of the Chaparral (1949) 135: A hired gun-slammer in the employ of Stokes? | ||
Fabulous Gunman 56: A gunslinger with your reputation. | ||
Power of Black (1962) 140: Did you hire the gunslinger, Colonel? | ||
Nova Apr. 99: You’re what made America great. A real gunslinger. | ||
House of Slammers 89: While a famous gunslinger named Sammy-the-Stinger / Covered him well from behind. | ||
Ruthless 242: As much as the Spanglers’ ‘straight-up’ gangsters are role models for many a youthful, would-be rudie gunslinger, they try to keep children and teenagers on the straight and narrow. | ||
Kill Your Darlings 241: Like gunslingers with their Colt .45s at the ready. |
2. (US black) a sexually powerful man.
Die Nigger Die! 27: I’m the bed tucker the cock plucker the motherfucker / The milkshaker the record breaker the population maker / The gun-slinger the baby bringer. |
3. (US campus) a woman who rejects a man’s attentions rudely.
Campus Sl. Mar. | ||
Sl. and Sociability 71: Gunslinger, ‘female who rejects a male’s attentions rudely’. |
4. one who is dedicated to a task, irrespective of drawbacks/opposition.
Back in the World 26: ‘You don’t mess around. You don’t get hung up on details. You do whatever you have to do and keep going. [...] You have to be a gunslinger’. | ‘Missing Person’ in||
(con. 1932-3) | Bodyline Autopsy 7: [T]he Wild West shoot-out between the smart young sheriff (Don Bradman from Bowral, New South Wales) and the narrow-eyed gunslinger (Harold Larwood from Nuncargate, Nottinghamshire).
5. an employee dedicated to troubleshooting.
Sweet La-La Land (1999) 72: She might even find herself working for him as a hired legal gunslinger. |
6. an aggressive male; a troublemaker.
Another Day in Paradise 124: Bobbie [...] has gunslinger written all over him, trouble waiting to happen. |