Definition of "snub-nosed" []

• Having a short, turned-up nose. (adjective)
• Having an extremely short barrel: a snub-nosed pistol. (adjective)

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• "The montage of icons does cohere into a sort of meta-icon perhaps, of dogs that are (for me) short-haired, middling-sized, with dark-brown fur; but this is … a sort of cubist collage of perspectives that spills out beyond its casual frame, each dog a Cerberus with three heads superimposed one over the other, snub-nosed and long-snouted, ears pricked and flattened, slavering and not slavering."
• "There is always the suspicion, especially on hot Californian days, that one of the beautifully laid-out trays is the hidden snub-nosed bullet in a game of edible Russian roulette."
• "A new species of snub-nosed monkey has been discovered in the Himalayas of north-eastern Burma."