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Thompson submachine gun

noun

  1. a portable, .45-caliber, automatic weapon designed to be fired from the shoulder or hip.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Thompson submachine gun1

1920–25; named after J. T. Thompson (1860–1940), American army officer who aided in its invention
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He fought in three of its five major battles, as well as in many lesser engagements, armed with a Thompson submachine gun.

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It found that the product's bottle, which is shaped like a Thompson submachine gun - commonly known as a Tommy gun - created "a direct link between the drink and a dangerous weapon".

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Other historical targets of regulation have included long-bladed Bowie knives and the Thompson submachine gun, or Tommy gun, popular with gangsters in the years after World War I.

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He had learned to shoot a Thompson submachine gun and interrogate Nazis.

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Mangrum, Sam said, was reputed to have surreptitiously executed a group of German POWs with his Thompson submachine gun.

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