slide action

1. 1.

   action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun; a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round

   Synonymspump action

   Broaderaction

   Part ofrifleshotgun

Questions about slide action

What does slide action mean?

slide action means "action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun; a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round".

What is another word for slide action?

Close synonyms include pump action. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slide action a common word?

slide action 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.