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Yes, rifle is playable

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"Rifle" Definition

noun

A firearm with a rifled bore, designed to be fired from the shoulder.
An artillery piece or naval gun with such spiral grooves.
Troops armed with rifles.
A shoulder weapon with a bore.
A rifled artillery piece.

verb-transitive

To cut spiral grooves within (a gun barrel, for example).
To ransack or plunder; pillage.
To rob: rifle a safe.
To search with intent to steal.

verb-intransitive

To search vigorously: rifling through my drawers to find matching socks.

verb

To ransack especially with the intent to steal.
To steal and carry away.
To engage in ransacking and stealing.
To cut spiral grooves into the bore of .
To propel (as a ball) with great force or speed.

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