pistol-whipped

verb

Definition of pistol-whippednext
past tense of pistol-whip
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  1. assaulted
  2. attacked
  3. punched
  4. smacked
  5. chopped
  6. swatted
Verb
  • One of the officers who was assaulted was Brian Sicknick.
    — Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 5 Jan. 2025
  • On June 16, 1952, Corporal Fred McGee’s unit assaulted fortified enemy positions near Tang-Wan-Ni Korea.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of assaulted
Verb
  • The site has previously been attacked by Ukrainian drones.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Two months after the end of the Korean War, the United States signed a bilateral mutual security treaty with South Korea in which Washington committed to come to Seoul’s aid if it were attacked.
    — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of attacked
Verb
  • Eazy The Block Captain and Shields also hopped into the fray, with Eazy disputing Papoose’s claim that he was punched unconscious and challenging him to a fight.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Rosa went on to detail that one of the young women punched her in the face, causing her glasses to fly to the floor, at which point a second teen grabbed a pouch containing Rosa's ID and medical records.
    — Toria Sheffield, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of punched
Verb
  • And then the game itself smacked him like Zack Bolduc’s hit that knocked Hall upside down into the Blues bench.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
  • She got smacked, but the ball went in.
    — Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of smacked
Verb
  • After all, a double-digit yield isn’t much good if it is soon chopped to single digits.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • In the intervening decades, though, the surviving members have seen their statement get chopped and screwed into morsels, divorced from its context.
    — Jazmine Hughes, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of chopped
Verb
  • Mims swatted Pollock's hand away, then stormed off.
    — Paul Dehner Jr., The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Brunson’s early output set the tone Thursday for another balanced offensive explosion by the Knicks, who swatted away the Hornets, 125-101, at Madison Square Garden for their fourth consecutive win.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of swatted
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“Pistol-whipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pistol-whipped. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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