pistol grip

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   a handle (as of a gun or saw) shaped like the butt of a pistol

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Questions about pistol grip

What does pistol grip mean?

pistol grip means "a handle (as of a gun or saw) shaped like the butt of a pistol".

Is pistol grip a common word?

pistol grip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.