Saturday night special
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8.8
- noun
- NSFW
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pistola de sábado por la noche
- It's not up to Smith and Wesson to decide what you're going to do with the Saturday night special that you bought.
- Saturday night special handgun
- Saturday night specials and junk guns
- called Saturday night specials
It's not up to Smith and Wesson to decide what you're going to do with the Saturday night special that you bought.
- It's not up to Smith and Wesson to decide what you're going to do with the Saturday night special that you bought.
Examples
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It's not up to Smith and Wesson to decide what you're going to do with the Saturday night special that you bought.
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Saturday night special
Blog text (30) -
You know where I could score a Saturday night special?
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Got this here, ladies' Saturday night special.
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All the side-loaders, clip-loaders, shoot-em-backs... Saturday night specials...
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El Bombardero is a schizophrenic gun nut who got his start with firearms in 2005 when he bought his first Saturday night special out of the trunk of a classic Caprice in a Whole Foods parking lot.
Blog text (6) -
"For those who think that Chick would be a different man if he'd had some personal experience of what can happen when handguns proliferate, let me report that his uncle in Florida was shot four times in the head with a Saturday-night special in a disagreement over a game of gin rummy.
Fiction book (2001) -
The police found a small firearm, which was clearly a Saturday night special, hidden under the suspect's jacket.
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Many crimes are committed with a Saturday night special due to their affordability and ease of access.
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He was arrested for possession of a Saturday night special after a series of break-ins in the neighborhood.
Synonyms
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2.1
A small gun you hold and fire with one hand
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4.6
A small gun that you hold and fire with one hand
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4.6
A small gun carried at a person's side for protection
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4.9
A gun like a handgun or rifle that a person can carry
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7.2
A small weak gun that has little power
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8.6
A small gun like a pistol that you carry on your belt
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9.9
An old slang name for a small gun people carry for protection
A very small gun that people use to kill pests or to carry secretly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The firearm sense of 'Saturday night special' is a culturally specific U.S. slang term for a cheap handgun and cannot be derived from the literal meanings of 'Saturday' + 'night' + 'special'. A B1 learner who knows the individual words would more likely interpret it as something special happening on Saturday night (an event or sale), so the idiomatic gun meaning is unpredictable and not cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Saturday night special comes from a simple picture: a small, cheap handgun sold or used on a Saturday night. One popular story says people bought these low-quality weapons as a kind of 'special' bargain for weekend trouble, so the phrase now means a small, inexpensive handgun often linked to 'crime'.