roscoe

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Definition of roscoe

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(US, slang)A handgun, particularly a revolver.

“Why, it was nothing to travel about the country with fifty grand worth of ice on me. Suppose I hadn’t packed a roscoe—hell, I’d of been hoisted once a week!”
“Vincenzo Ricci: Just his normal detail, a few guys with roscoes. None of the other fellas are gonna do dick to protect that piece of shit.”
“Before Hicks knows it they're out in the far northwest somewhere […], apt around any corner to find yourself up the wrong end of a roscoe from somebody you knew in sixth grade.”

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noun

(US, slang)A handgun, particularly a revolver.

“Why, it was nothing to travel about the country with fifty grand worth of ice on me. Suppose I hadn’t packed a roscoe—hell, I’d of been hoisted once a week!”
“Vincenzo Ricci: Just his normal detail, a few guys with roscoes. None of the other fellas are gonna do dick to protect that piece of shit.”
“Before Hicks knows it they're out in the far northwest somewhere […], apt around any corner to find yourself up the wrong end of a roscoe from somebody you knew in sixth grade.”

name

A surname from Old Norse.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A hamlet and census-designated place in Sullivan County, New York, United States, named after Senator Roscoe Conkling.

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Unknown, apparently from the surname Roscoe; sometimes attested as John Roscoe. Attested from the 1910s.

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