Thesaurus results for PISTOL-WHIP

pistol-whip

verb

as in to horsewhip

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Recent Examples of pistol-whip Prosecutors said Talley pistol-whipped a 55-year-old cashier at a Family Dollar store on Saturday, robbing her at gunpoint with a co-conspirator before fleeing on a scooter. —

Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026 During the trial, the victim testified that Newton pointed a gun at the victim’s head and threatened her with it instead of attempting to pistol-whip her. —

City News Service, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026 What came next, according to police reports, was an hourlong ordeal in which the robber, after pushing his way into the home, bound the victim with duct tape, pistol-whipped and repeatedly threatened to kill him while demanding access to his phone and laptop. —

Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026 At that point, another suspect allegedly approached the victim, who was then pistol-whipped. —

Sean Mandell, People.com, 17 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for pistol-whip

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The Speccie’s star columnist is the rudest man in Christendom, the Godzilla of contumely, an all-time non-sufferer of fools who horsewhips his targets the way Hunter S. Thompson and Christopher Hitchens once did.

— Kyle Smith, National Review, 23 Apr. 2020
In reality, Watson wasn’t a bar fighter or famous for horsewhipping cowboys.

— Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018