"starter gun" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to the pistol that is fired at the beginning of a race, signalizing the start of the race. For example, "The runners lined up at the starting line and anxiously awaited the sound of the starter gun."
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The demonstration is like a starter gun to the general election, so parliament knows it has to do something to make things different for our generation.
A tap to the tail substituted for the starter gun and the lizards would take off at top speed — sometimes with further tail-tapping encouragement — until they reached the other end.
The night kicked off with a trio of hardcore punk bands that can claim legitimacy in their own genre but were just the "pow" of the evening's starter gun.
The starter gun fired, the race began and as the space around us emptied, my adversary took brief whippet-like runs along the track to stay warm.
I don't remember the starter gun or that U-turn around the barrels, but suddenly we're on the first straightaway, the wagon shaking violently like a car with blown-out shocks rumbling down a gravel road.
They make perfect starter guns and are cheap.
Starter guns usually use.20g BBs, these can be as cheap as $15-$15-$20 a 10,000 bag.
If this were the case, wouldn't a sprinter have a dim awareness of the starters' gun up to half a minute before it actually occurs?
She will leave the critical starter-gun state, which will anoint its preferred nominees for both main parties in early January before any other gets to choose, in a confident mood.
"Fuck the Bauhaus" proved to be the starter's gun for a movement.
