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machine gun
1noun
- a small arm operated by a mechanism, able to deliver a rapid and continuous fire of bullets as long as the trigger is pressed.
machine-gun
2[ muh-sheen-guhn ]
verb (used with object)
- to shoot at with a machine gun.
machine gun
noun
- a rapid-firing automatic gun, usually mounted, from which small-arms ammunition is discharged
- ( as modifier )
machine-gun fire
verb
- tr to shoot or fire at with a machine gun
Derived Forms
- machine gunner, noun
Other Word Forms
- machine gunner noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of machine gun1
Origin of machine gun2
Example Sentences
Security forces said they had also recovered and destroyed two machine guns and locally fabricated shotguns.
The Ta'ang National Liberation Army, an armed rebel group, said that military troops shot at the convoy of nine vehicles with machine guns in eastern Shan State.
A 15-year-old girl who was hit by Israeli machine gun fire while riding her bicycle was one of the many wounded children that Dr Perlmutter said he had to operate on.
Last year, the court’s conservative majority blocked a regulation supported by both the Trump and Biden administrations that had outlawed “bump stocks,” which allowed semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like a machine gun.
On hearing his name, one pensioner grabs her crutch and wields it like a machine gun, shouting that he is dangerous.
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