Tommy gun


noun
  1. any submachine gun.

Origin of Tommy gun

1
First recorded in 1920–25; by shortening

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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?

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  • 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.

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  • For 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.

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  • He could distinguish the heavy thud of the Tommy-gun, the sharper crack of the carbine, but other weapons were also firing.

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British Dictionary definitions for Tommy gun

Tommy gun

noun
  1. an informal name for Thompson sub-machine-gun

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