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Hoplophobia - fear of firearms

#1: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Dec 29, 2019

New version published by maceraseven.

I'd have guessed the word meant fear of beer or kangaroos, but I suppose the real answer is a legit thing to fear

I kind of have this ...

Me too, Jota!

Aren't phobias "irrational" fears? Firearms are deadly.

Aha, this one was coined in the 60s. Apparently, the meaning is being afraid of the object itself, like you see a gun lying on a table and you freak out, even though no one is there to use it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplophobia

Wasn't there an Old West outlaw named Hop-a-long Something-or-other? Maybe they got their nickname from hoplo (firearm) because they were trigger happy. It's a guess. Clearly I know very little about the guy.

They did like to borrow European words back then and pronounce them their own way, so it's possible. That's how a saloon got its name. It was taken from the French "salon" meaning a room where sophisticated men discuss things, but, well... the Old West. Nothing sophisticated came out of it.

The fictional Hopalong Cassidy :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy

But, Hoplon is legitimately the Greek word for Weapon.

So that article was informative. I was way off, but it would have been a great answer in Balderdash!

true!

I have a fear of running out of ammo...

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