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a weapon that picks fights with the August sun and somehow always wins.
means A toy gun that shoots a stream of water, used for play and good-natured ambushes.
from A plain compound of "squirt" plus "gun." "Squirt" likely came into English from a Low German or Dutch source meaning to spurt or eject liquid in a thin jet, imitative of the sound itself. "Gun" goes back to Middle English, possibly from a Scandinavian woman's name, Gunnhildr — medieval engineers had a habit of giving their war machines pet names, and "Gunhild" seems to have stuck to a large crossbow or catapult before the word migrated to firearms. So the squirtgun's lineage runs, improbably, through both a noise and a Norse name.
- super soaker
- invented by a NASA engineer working on heat pumps
- banned in zones
- some cities outlaw them during heatwaves and protests
- pressure power
- high-end models hit forty feet of range
- cat deterrent
- the universally feared tool of behavior correction
- escalation guaranteed
- no fight stays at one squirtgun for long
water gun day — annual festival in thailand (songkran) where millions engage in massive water battles with squirt guns and buckets
super soaker — pressurized water gun toy invented by lonnie johnson in 1989, became dominant brand in water gun wars