pew n.
(used to represent the sound of a weapon, esp. a beam weapon)
Usually in reduplicated form pew pew pew.
Weaponry
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1971
‘I’ll get even with them for what they done to you,’ Pew-pew-pew went the finger-gun, shooting it out with the bad men.
Krumnagel 200 -
1978
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He trained the telescopic sight…. Pew! Pew! Pew! The head, the heart, a lung. Isoceles hit. Superior. He was already dismantling the silencer.
Power Eaters 122 -
1995
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Diane Carey
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Kira leaned into the controls, brought Defiant up on an edge, rolled around Rugg’l’s stern, and opened fire again. Pew-pew-pew.
Station Rage (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) 231 -
2009
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Sue Behrent
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‘Sir?’ you hear one of the clones say, before—PEW-PEW-PEW! ‘They’ve opened fire on Janu!’ screams Peder.
Tethan Battle Adventure (Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Decide Your Destiny) 44 -
2012
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Cory Doctorow
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Laser hats were scorchingly bad-arse because they put lasers on your head and you went pew-pew-pew when you walked down the street.
Pirate Cinema (2013) -
2014 Starburst Magazine (#399) Apr. 108/1
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It has proper plastic UFO pieces that stack on top of each other, perfect for making little ‘zoom’ and ‘pew pew’ noises when you blow up another player’s homeworld.
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2022 Condé Nast Traveler 15 June (online ed.)
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A bowling alley, and…the laser-tag joint Ultrazone…defined my teen years, as my friends and I gutter-balled and pew-pew-pew-ed our weekends away.
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