saturday night special

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   a cheap handgun that is easily obtained

   Broaderpistol

Questions about saturday night special

What does saturday night special mean?

saturday night special means "a cheap handgun that is easily obtained".

Is saturday night special a common word?

saturday night special 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.