1. small tubes or toy guns that shoot dried peas or small pellets
Usage: informal
2. weak or ineffective weapons or firearms
Usage: informal; derogatory

Examples

• The children made peashooters from hollow reeds.
• He aimed his peashooter at the tin cans lined up on the fence.
• The soldiers complained that their rifles were just peashooters compared to the enemy’s heavy weapons.
• She loaded dried peas into her homemade peashooter.
• The toy store sold colorful plastic peashooters in the game section.
• Against the tank, their small arms seemed like peashooters.