Usually means: Handguns designed for one-handed use.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. pistols: Merriam-Webster
  2. pistols: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pistols: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pistols: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pistol's, Pistols, pistol's, pistols: Wordnik
  6. pistols: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pistols: Wiktionary
  8. pistols: Dictionary.com
  9. pistols: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Pistols: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. pistols: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. Pistols: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pistols: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pistols: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pistols: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pistols: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pistol as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pistol)

noun:  A handgun
noun:  The mechanical component of a fuse in a bomb or torpedo responsible for firing the detonator.
noun:  A creative and unpredictable jokester, a constant source of entertainment and surprises.
noun:  (Southern US) A small boy who is bright, alert and very active.
noun:  (American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, but closer than in a shotgun formation, with a running back lined up behind him.
verb:  (transitive) To shoot (at) a target with a pistol.
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