roscoe
(US, slang) A handgun, particularly a revolver.
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Born ~1910 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John, Alice Lake and Alice Mann Oh Doctor! [1917] #oldhollywood #damfino #silentfilm
GloRilla - Hollon MV: Troy Roscoe Now streaming on ballsack.tv #music #ballsacktv #ballsackradio
He was very cerebral. I recall he and Roscoe wrote out music on note cards and threw them in the air to mix them up. And then did the same thing for the late show.
Air Bud Returns is real, and we caught up with Robert Vince and Roscoe at CinemaCon. Buddy is back for a new generation and longtime fans are going to feel this one. Watch now: flickdirect.com/flickvision/... #AirBu…
worming on roscoe also. the one thing i have for them for sure is like, being a spirit medium. not in the hokey sense either, like pruning back all the goofy spirit medium stuff? they just see ghosts.
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(US, slang) A handgun, particularly a revolver.
Before Hicks knows it they're out in the far northwest somewhere , apt around any corner to find yourself up the wrong end of a roscoe from somebody you knew in sixth grade.
“Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John, Alice Lake and Alice Mann Oh Doctor! [1917] #oldhollywood #damfino #silentfilm”
— Bluesky· May 2026“GloRilla - Hollon MV: Troy Roscoe Now streaming on ballsack.tv #music #ballsacktv #ballsackradio”
— Bluesky· May 2026“He was very cerebral. I recall he and Roscoe wrote out music on note cards and threw them in the air to mix them up. And then did the same thing for the late show.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Air Bud Returns is real, and we caught up with Robert Vince and Roscoe at CinemaCon. Buddy is back for a new generation and longtime fans are going to feel this one. Watch now: flickdirect.com/flickvision/... #AirBud #AirBudReturns #CinemaCon #FamilyMovies”
— Bluesky· May 2026“worming on roscoe also. the one thing i have for them for sure is like, being a spirit medium. not in the hokey sense either, like pruning back all the goofy spirit medium stuff? they just see ghosts.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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