Machine-gun definition

mə-shēngŭn
machinegun machineguns machine-guns
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To fire at or kill with a machine gun.
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A gun that fires rapidly and continuously as long as the trigger is held back.
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Fast and staccato.

A machine-gun style of speaking.

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An automatic gun, usually mounted and with a cooling apparatus, designed to fire a rapid and continuous stream of bullets.
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A type of firearm that fires bullets in rapid succession by a single action of the trigger.
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To fire a machine gun.
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To kill people with a machine gun.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
machine-gun
Plural:
machine-guns

Machine-gun Sentence Examples

  • A machine-gun in the fortified zone was firing on them, and Lt.-Comm.

  • C. Halahan at the head of the bluejackets amidships was killed by machine-gun fire.

  • We've got to start moving everything within twenty-four hours, Lon told them, slinging a machine gun over his shoulder.

  • They advanced toward the lighthouse and reached the lookout station, where they were held up again by machine-gun fire.

  • He drove the enemy off the ridge, except at one point where a gallant handful of men still clung to a knob of hill that had been made into a machine-gun redoubt.

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