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The term potato cannon got me interested enough to look up the Wikipedia page for it, where I learned that they are also amusingly colloquially referred to as "
by SOLAR_FIELDS 9y ago
The term potato cannon got me interested enough to look up the Wikipedia page for it, where I learned that they are also amusingly colloquially referred to as "spud guns". There's also a vacuum variant known as the "vacuum bazooka".
- anfractuosity 9y agoI always thought 'spud gun' referred to this kind of toy gun - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_gun#/media/File:Spud_Gun.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spud_gun#/media/File:Spud_Gun.... which fires small parts of a potato. The vacuum bazooka, looks really neat, I'm surprised that according to wiki, they can apparently project the potato at 650mph.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 9y agoApparently according to Wikipedia the term is used in both contexts: to specifically refer to the toy, and more generally as another term for potato cannons.