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Räuberpistole
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German
Etymology
de Räuber Pistole, in its story sense originally a Berlin colloquialism often in reference to disingenuously constructed crime fiction, also supported by a jargonic verb de räubern to fib, to tell tall stories.
Pronunciation
de /ˈʁɔʏ̯bɐ.pɪsˌtoːlə/
de De-Räuberpistole.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
f
de obsolete a pistol typical for someone occupied in robbery
wild story, tall tale, just-so story
Declension
f
Further reading
Meyer Hans 96a https://archive.org/details/derrichtigeberli05meyeuoft/page/96 1904 Der richtige Berliner in Wörtern und Redensarten 5th Berlin H.S. Hermann
fish story Flügel-Schmidt-Tanger: A Dictionary of the English and German Languages for Home and School: English / Wörterbuch der Englischen und Deutschen Sprache für Hand- und Schulgebrauch Schmidt, Immanuel; Tanger, Gustav 1: English-German 1896 Braunschweig George Westermann 264b https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dictionary_of_the_English_and_German_Lan/vZUOAQAAMAAJ?gbpv=1&dq=R%C3%A4uberpistole&pg=PA264&printsec=frontcover