てっぽう
Meanings
Noun
1. gun
2. wooden pole that wrestlers strike in practice
3. puffer fish
Kanji used
iron
cannon
Pitch accent
っぽう
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Used in vocabulary (14 in total)
elbowing (someone); rejection; rebuff
archerfish (any fish of family Toxotidae, esp. the banded archerfish, Toxotes jaculatrix)
longhorn beetle grub
aimless attempt; shot in the dark
Easter lily (Lilium longiflorum)
aimless attempt; shot in the dark; crapshot
gunmakers guild
salad of minced Welsh onions, seafood, and vinegared miso
doing something without having decided what one's goal for it is; (lit.) a rifle in the dark
snapping shrimp (Alpheus brevicristatus); pistol prawn
snapping shrimp (Alpheus brevicristatus); pistol prawn
shortawn foxtail (Alopecurus aequalis)
Examples (2 in total)
The police compared the fingerprints on the gun with those on the door.
In the U.S., as many as 216 million firearms are said to be in private hands.