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verb
To shoot peas at (a person or thing) using a pea-shooter; also figurative. Also (occasionally) without object.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Henry Kingsley (1830–1876), novelist and essayist. From pea + shoot, after earlier pea-shooter and probably also pea-shooting.
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