Usually means: Strike someone with a handgun.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word pistol-whip:

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  1. pistol-whip: Merriam-Webster
  2. pistol-whip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pistol-whip: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pistol-whip, pistol-whip: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pistol-whip: Vocabulary.com
  6. pistol-whip: Wordnik
  7. pistol-whip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pistol-whip: Wiktionary
  9. pistol-whip: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pistol-whip: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pistol-whip: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pistol-whip: Dictionary.com
  13. Pistol-whip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. pistol-whip: Rhymezone
  15. pistol-whip: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pistol-whip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. pistol-whip: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See pistol-whipped as well.)

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To strike or beat (someone) with a pistol, especially with its butt.

Similar:
gunbuck, butt, pummel, whiplash, beat to a pulp, thwack, whack, heel-palm, whomp, whap, more...

Opposite:
unpistol-whip, spare

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Similar:
gunbuck, butt, pummel, whiplash, beat to a pulp, thwack, whack, heel-palm, whomp, whap, more...

Opposite:
unpistol-whip, spare



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