twenty-two rifle

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   a .22-caliber rifle

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Questions about twenty-two rifle

What does twenty-two rifle mean?

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

Is twenty-two rifle a common word?

twenty-two rifle 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.