Lead Pumper In Old Slang Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "GAT" which means:

noun
• • A gangster's pistol
verb
• • To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
• • (ditransitive) to obtain; to acquire.
• • To receive.
• • (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) to have. see usage notes.
• • To fetch, bring, take.
• • To become, or cause oneself to become.
• • To cause to become; to bring about.
• • To cause to do.
• • To cause to come or go or move.
• • To cause to be in a certain status or position.
• • (with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) to adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
• • To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
• • To begin (doing something or to do something).
• • To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
• • To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
• • (followed by infinitive) to be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
• • To understand. (compare get it)
• • To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
• • To be. used to form the passive of verbs.
• • To become ill with or catch (a disease).
• • To catch out, trick successfully.
• • To perplex, stump.
• • To find as an answer.
• • To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• • To hear completely; catch.
• • To getter.
• • To beget (of a father).
• • To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
• • Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
• • To go, to leave; to scram.
• • To kill.
• • To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
• • To measure.

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