roscoe
See also: Roscoe
English edit
Etymology edit
Unknown, apparently from the surname Roscoe; sometimes attested as John Roscoe.[1] Attested from the 1910s.[2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
roscoe (plural roscoes)
- (slang) A handgun, particularly a revolver.
- 1948, Leslie Charteris, Saint Errant, page 103:
- 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!
- 2020, Hangar 13, Mafia: Definitive Edition:
- Just his normal detail, a few guys with roscoes. None of the other fellas are gonna do dick to protect that piece of shit.
References edit
- ^ Jonathon Green (2024) “roscoe”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
- ^ “roscoe, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, November 2010.
