"roscoe" meaning in English

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          "text": "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!",
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          "text": "Vincenzo Ricci: Just his normal detail, a few guys with roscoes. None of the other fellas are gonna do dick to protect that piece of shit.",
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          "text": "Before Hicks knows it they're out in the far northwest somewhere […], apt around any corner to find yourself up the wrong end of a roscoe from somebody you knew in sixth grade.",
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