twenty-two pistol

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   a .22-caliber pistol

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Questions about twenty-two pistol

What does twenty-two pistol mean?

twenty-two pistol means "a .22-caliber pistol".

Is twenty-two pistol a common word?

twenty-two pistol 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.