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machine gun
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an automatic gun, usually mounted and with a cooling apparatus, firing a rapid and continuous stream of bullets
Related Forms:
- machine-gun transitive verb machine-gunned, machine-gunning
See machine gun in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
A gun that fires rapidly and repeatedly.
transitive verb ma·chine-gunned, ma·chine-gun·ning, ma·chine-guns
To fire at or kill with a machine gun.
adjective Fast and staccato: a machine-gun style of speaking.
Related Forms:
- machine gunner noun
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