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Thompson submachine gun

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a type of submachine gun

Origin: after a co-inventor, John T. Thompson (1860-1940), U.S. army officer

See Thompson submachine gun in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A .45-caliber submachine gun having a wooden stock and a box or drum magazine.

Origin:

Origin: After John Taliaferro Thompson (1860-1940), American army officer

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