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Browning automatic rifle

–noun
an air-cooled, fully automatic rifle capable of firing 200 to 350 rounds per minute. Abbreviation: BAR

Origin:
1900–05; named after J. M. Browning
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Browning automatic rifle  
n.   Abbr. BAR
A .30-caliber air-cooled, automatic or semiautomatic, gas-operated, magazine-fed rifle used by U.S. troops in World Wars I and II and the Korean War.

[After John Moses Browning.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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