"pawgun" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From paw + gun.",
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          "ref": "2010, Daniel S. Knowles, Rodents on the Prowl, page 674:",
          "text": "She thought that the guy was rude too, so she threw the smoking gun away that she had just used and then pulled out a small pawgun from her pawbag, checked to see if there were any bullets in it.",
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          "ref": "2011, Garry Kilworth, Heastward Ho! A Welkin Weasel Adventure:",
          "text": "Jal Bolt has invented the seven-shooter, sir, a most prestigious pawgun which will fire seven bullets without reloading.",
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          "ref": "2016 January 12, Dave Norris, “Teenaper returns for mo' loot...SHEET!”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):",
          "text": "A woman wakes up after being poked by the pawgun held by Jason Donte Hayes. It demands she take it to ATM machine and get it $2,000. The machine only allows her to withdraw $460, and additional transactions are denied. The dumb boon then takes the woman home, wakes the husband, and tells them to to go back to bed, but meet it tomorrow with the additional $1500. The nigger shows up in the same clothes and is cuffed. It has some of the money, and a gold watch it took the night before.",
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        "(slang, idiomatic, derogatory, uncommon) A handgun."
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