staple gun

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   a hand-held machine for driving staples home

   Synonymsstapleguntacker

   Broadermachine

Questions about staple gun

What does staple gun mean?

staple gun means "a hand-held machine for driving staples home".

What is another word for staple gun?

Close synonyms include staplegun, tacker. 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 staple gun a common word?

staple gun 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.