The heroine fills her sock with rocks to use as a weapon. The hero (American deputy sheriff) says, "Hmmn. An impromptu ____."
Pop quiz: what is this called?
a.Cosh
b.Blackjack
c. Sap
d.____?
Originally, I'd called it a cosh, from some vague recollection of Alastair MacClean novels. But a Google search brought up at least two websites that called it a blackjack. (To me, that's a term used in a casino so I thought it might confuse readers.)
A Reddit search brought up a variety of answers, but the top one was a sap. (I thought "a sap" was someone easily fooled, e.g. Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon saying "I won't play the sap for you.")
The Urban Dictionary called it a rock sock, but it also had additional definitions of that term which are NSFW. (Is there ANY word in the Urban Dictionary that does not have at least one definition that is NSFW?)
I'd rather not have the hero refer to it just as a "weapon" since I'm trying to show him as an expert who knows what various weapons are called.
Pop quiz: what is this called?
a.Cosh
b.Blackjack
c. Sap
d.____?
Originally, I'd called it a cosh, from some vague recollection of Alastair MacClean novels. But a Google search brought up at least two websites that called it a blackjack. (To me, that's a term used in a casino so I thought it might confuse readers.)
A Reddit search brought up a variety of answers, but the top one was a sap. (I thought "a sap" was someone easily fooled, e.g. Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon saying "I won't play the sap for you.")
The Urban Dictionary called it a rock sock, but it also had additional definitions of that term which are NSFW. (Is there ANY word in the Urban Dictionary that does not have at least one definition that is NSFW?)
I'd rather not have the hero refer to it just as a "weapon" since I'm trying to show him as an expert who knows what various weapons are called.
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