AK-47

[ ey-key-fawr-tee-sev-uhn ]

noun
  1. a Soviet-designed, gas-operated, magazine-fed assault rifle with a caliber of 7.62 millimeters, used for automatic or semiautomatic fire.: Compare AR-15, M16.

Origin of AK-47

1
First recorded in 1947; from Russian A(vtomat) K(alashnikova), automatic gun of Kalashnikov, after Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov (1919–2013), Soviet arms engineer

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British Dictionary definitions for AK-47

AK-47

noun
  1. a type of Kalashnikov assault rifle

Origin of AK-47

1
C20: from A ( utomat ) K ( alashnikov )

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