Machine Gun Definition

mə-shēngŭn
machinegun, machineguns, machine-guns
noun
An automatic gun, usually mounted and with a cooling apparatus, designed to fire a rapid and continuous stream of bullets.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
To fire at or kill with a machine gun.
American Heritage
To fire a machine gun.
Wiktionary

To kill people with a machine gun.

Wiktionary
adjective
Fast and staccato.
A machine-gun style of speaking.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Machine Gun

Noun

Singular:
machine gun
Plural:
machine-guns

Machine Gun Sentence Examples

  • A machine-gun in the fortified zone was firing on them, and Lt.-Comm.

  • C. Halahan at the head of the bluejackets amidships was killed by machine-gun fire.

  • We've got to start moving everything within twenty-four hours, Lon told them, slinging a machine gun over his shoulder.

  • They advanced toward the lighthouse and reached the lookout station, where they were held up again by machine-gun fire.

  • He drove the enemy off the ridge, except at one point where a gallant handful of men still clung to a knob of hill that had been made into a machine-gun redoubt.

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