smoke wagon
English
Noun
smoke wagon (plural smoke wagons)
- (US, slang, archaic) A handgun, especially a revolver.
- 1926, Nicholas Klein, "Hobo Lingo," American Speech, vol. 1, no. 12, pp. 650-653,
- The following list of hobo words, presented in glossary form, was collected by me during twenty years of experience with hobo cases in my profession of attorney-at-law. . . . Smoke wagon—pistol.
- 1950, C. Merton Babcock, "The Vocabulary of Social Life on the American Frontier," Western Folklore, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 138,
- Familiar epithets for the revolver were equalizer, shootin' iron . . . smoke wagon.
- 1926, Nicholas Klein, "Hobo Lingo," American Speech, vol. 1, no. 12, pp. 650-653,