Machine-gun
Use Machine-gun in a sentencemachine gun
noun
a small arm operated by a mechanism, able to deliver a rapid and continuous fire of bullets as long as the trigger is pressed.
Origin:
1865–70
1865–70
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World English Dictionary
| machine gun | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. a rapid-firing automatic gun, usually mounted, from which small-arms ammunition is discharged |
| b. (as modifier): machine-gun fire | |
| —vb , -guns, -gunning, -gunned | |
| 2. | (tr) to shoot or fire at with a machine gun |
| machine gunner | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
If you give them a machine-gun, they will soon find out how to shoot it.
Her sarcasm searched the ranks of the officials with the deadly and unsparing precision of a machine-gun.
As the machine-gun barrels were chair legs and the handlebars were crutches, the effect was more theatrical than threatening.
The selfsame word can at one time be the cornerstone of peace, while at another, machine-gun fire resounds in its every syllable.
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