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the only firearm whose worst outcome is a delightfully soggy enemy
means A toy gun that shoots a stream or spray of water, used for harmless fun and friendly battles, especially on a hot day.
from A plain English compound of "water" and "gun," both old workhorse words: "water" traces back to Old English "wæter" (a cousin of German "Wasser"), while "gun" is a strange little mystery — it likely shortens a medieval woman's name, "Gunilda," once jokingly given to large siege engines, the way soldiers nickname their weapons. Stick the two together and you get a 20th-century toy: the menace of a gun, defanged into a squirt.
- super soaker
- Invented by a NASA engineer working on heat pumps
- pressure tech
- Air-pressure design borrowed straight from rocket science
- billion club
- Super Soaker sales have topped one billion dollars
- banned briefly
- Some 1990s cities outlawed the most powerful models
- world record
- Largest watergun was over seven feet long
super soaker cps 2000 — larami toy released in 1994, could shoot 35 feet and held 1.4 liters of water
water gun fight geneva — annual august event in geneva, switzerland since 2014 with thousands of participants
pump action water blaster — nerf brand toy popularized in 1990s, featured pressurized tank and rapid-fire capability