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☆ Thompson submachine gun

a type of submachine gun

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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