"service revolver" meaning in English

See service revolver in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: service revolvers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} service revolver (plural service revolvers)
  1. (possibly dated) A handgun of the revolver type, issued to a police officer or member of the military for use in the course of his or her official duties. Tags: dated, possibly Hypernyms: service pistol
    Sense id: en-service_revolver-en-noun-PqAjLPr4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for service revolver meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "service revolvers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "service revolver (plural service revolvers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, in A Study in Scarlet",
          "text": "\"Have you any arms?\"\n\"I have my old service revolver and a few cartridges.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 7, in Heart of the Sunset",
          "text": "\"Look what the general gave me,\" and he proudly displayed Longorio's service revolver. Around Jose's waist was the cartridge-belt and holster that went with the weapon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995 September 4, “Two Officers Argue, And One Is Shot”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-03-07",
          "text": "The policewoman, Kimberly Greenleaf, 34, apparently struggled with Officer Thomas Marchitto, 37, before she shot him once in the neck with her .38-caliber service revolver.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 August 7, “Brazilian teenager kills police officer parents and extended family”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2018-03-07",
          "text": "The teen died from a shot to the left temple, his father's police-issue service revolver found nearby.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A handgun of the revolver type, issued to a police officer or member of the military for use in the course of his or her official duties."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "service pistol"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-service_revolver-en-noun-PqAjLPr4",
      "links": [
        [
          "handgun",
          "handgun"
        ],
        [
          "revolver",
          "revolver"
        ],
        [
          "police officer",
          "police officer"
        ],
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(possibly dated) A handgun of the revolver type, issued to a police officer or member of the military for use in the course of his or her official duties."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "possibly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "service revolver"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "service revolvers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "service revolver (plural service revolvers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "service pistol"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, in A Study in Scarlet",
          "text": "\"Have you any arms?\"\n\"I have my old service revolver and a few cartridges.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 7, in Heart of the Sunset",
          "text": "\"Look what the general gave me,\" and he proudly displayed Longorio's service revolver. Around Jose's waist was the cartridge-belt and holster that went with the weapon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995 September 4, “Two Officers Argue, And One Is Shot”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-03-07",
          "text": "The policewoman, Kimberly Greenleaf, 34, apparently struggled with Officer Thomas Marchitto, 37, before she shot him once in the neck with her .38-caliber service revolver.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 August 7, “Brazilian teenager kills police officer parents and extended family”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2018-03-07",
          "text": "The teen died from a shot to the left temple, his father's police-issue service revolver found nearby.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A handgun of the revolver type, issued to a police officer or member of the military for use in the course of his or her official duties."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "handgun",
          "handgun"
        ],
        [
          "revolver",
          "revolver"
        ],
        [
          "police officer",
          "police officer"
        ],
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(possibly dated) A handgun of the revolver type, issued to a police officer or member of the military for use in the course of his or her official duties."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "possibly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "service revolver"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.