machine gun

an automatic gun, usually mounted and with a cooling apparatus, firing a rapid and continuous stream of bullets

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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.

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  • machine gunner noun

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