| 释义 |
ˈpistol-whip, v. orig. and chiefly U.S.
[f. pistol n. + whip v.]
trans. To strike (someone) with the butt of a pistol. Also fig. Hence ˈpistol-whipping vbl. n.
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §322/5 Pistol-whip, to strike with the butt of a pistol. 1952Sun (Baltimore) 4 July 42/8 The two young Negroes pitched into him and the one with the gun pistol-whipped the physician. 1958J. Thompson Getaway (1972) iv. 29 The banker lay sprawled on the floor, half-dead from Rudy's pistol-whipping. 1965J. Philips Twisted People i. iv. 88 She'd been subjected to about the worst beating I've ever seen. Pistol whipped is my guess. 1967Observer 23 Apr. 5/3 The British Foreign Secretary had been subjected to ‘a pistol-whipping’..from Mr. Walt Rostow in the White House. 1970K. Platt Pushbutton Butterfly (1971) xi. 132, I remembered the pistol-whipping..and brought my knee up to his face. 1973G. Sims Hunters Point xiii. 124 He could feel the pain from the pistol-whipping blows he'd taken on his ribs. 1977J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) xiv. 322 Let a cop get pistol-whipped instead of a clerk. |
