Tommy gun
any submachine gun.
Origin of Tommy gun
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How to use Tommy gun in a sentence
Why should I worry about a man with a Tommy gun 2,000 miles away?
I pulled around the corner onto Harper street, and into the path of a Tommy gun's fire.
His fingers gripped the stock of the tommy-gun so tightly the knuckles showed white.
The Lost Warship | Robert Moore WilliamsFor want of something better to do, he took down a Tommy gun from a rack near Segador's seat and examined it for dust and grease.
The Five Arrows | Allan ChaseHe could distinguish the heavy thud of the Tommy-gun, the sharper crack of the carbine, but other weapons were also firing.
Sinister Paradise | Robert Moore Williams
Before the boys piled in, Stan handed his tommy-gun to Allison.
A Yankee Flier in Italy | Rutherford G. Montgomery
British Dictionary definitions for Tommy gun
an informal name for Thompson sub-machine-gun
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