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Saturday-night special

(From police slang for a cheap handgun) A quick-and-dirty program or feature kluged together during off hours, under a deadline, and in response to pressure from a salescritter. Such hacks are dangerously unreliable, but all too often sneak into a production release after insufficient review.
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Last night, a police source said: 'We know from enquiries done so far that it has not been used in any other crime but this new technique may throw up something different.' Gun expert Alan Birbeck, of Glasgow University Ballistics Impact Group, believes the tiny automatic weapon is a Saturday Night Special - a cheap throwaway gun often used by professional hitmen.
A Colt single-action revolver that sells for $1,500 is a Saturday Night Special under the criteria in some proposals.
And one of them is that amoral ambition is as American as apple pie and the Saturday Night Special.
And he also discovered Lynyrd Skynyrd, signing them up and producing their first three albums which produced such classics as Free Bird, Sweet Home Alabama and Saturday Night Special.
It would be a real "Saturday Night Special." All-new internal parts were ordered from Brownells.
On slightly closer inspection, as you approach the cash register with your new Saturday Night Special, or that impulse-buy AK-47 or - for the ladies - a Black Widow handgun, it turns out that they are not lollipops after all.
That Christmas Saturday night special, which saw Aberdeen win 2-0, was a long way from the goal avalanches they were buried under by Celtic during Ebbe Skovdahl's early days in charge.
One columnist in the Detroit News postulated: "If the present legislation (passes), any paranoid whacko with enough cash to buy a Saturday Night Special will legally be able to carry it anyplace except schools, sports arenas and saloons."
Those opponents of the basic human right of self-defense who would disarm you generally define a "Saturday Night Special" as "a small conceal able handgun designed for shooting people." They will usually illustrate their point with a picture of a snub-hosed .38 revolver.
Suker's Saturday night special came in the third minute of stoppage time.
Canada are next up for England, having conceded 60 points on their last Twickenham visit five years ago and another Saturday night special should not be ruled out.
Remember SB500, the California "Saturday Night Special" bill that Gov.
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