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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.
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Origin of machine gun First recorded in 1865–70
Words nearby machine gun machination ,
machine ,
machine bolt ,
machine code ,
machine finish ,
machine gun ,
machine head ,
machine intelligence ,
machine language ,
machine learning ,
machinelike
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machine-gun
[ muh -sheen -guhn ] SHOW IPA
/ məˈʃinˌgʌn / PHONETIC RESPELLING
verb (used with object), ma·chine-gunned, ma·chine-gun·ning.
to shoot at with a machine gun.
Origin of machine-gun First recorded in 1880–85
OTHER WORDS FROM machine-gun machine gunner, noun
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How to use machine gun in a sentence At age thirteen my father was awoken by machine gun fire in the streets of Madrid.
Because I had never used a machine gun , but now there’s one in front of me.
According to the FBI, it was an illegal machine gun optimized to fire bursts of shots automatically, with an added silencer.
One of them lugged an enormous machine gun a few steps behind Zelensky.
She called Judi—a young man responsible for the few heavy weapons, such as mortars and machine gun s, the YPG had in its possession—and told him to come to her location as soon as he could.
They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.
Mothers pushed their children's heads down and they sped through town, leaving a trail of machine-gun shells in their wake.
A burst of machine-gun fire blew off the wall of a nearby building—the commandos were approaching.
There is something about a firefight at night, something about the mechanical elegance of an M-60 machine gun .
Incoming and outgoing machine-gun fire covered homes and apartments near positions taken by Israeli soldiers.
Yesterday I came under the fire of a machine gun in the course of my afternoon rounds.
Nagpungasì ang mga bala sa masinggan, The machine gun bullets are coming in rapid succession.
Behind that cloud of gas the German troops advanced, protected by a heavy barrage and intense machine-gun fire.
The German columns, mown down by shrapnel and machine-gun fire, were unable to reach the British trenches.
We sprang up once more and dodged and doubled as we leaped through the rain of bullets, machine gun and rifle.
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British Dictionary definitions for machine gun
noun
a rapid-firing automatic gun, usually mounted, from which small-arms ammunition is discharged (as modifier ) machine-gun fire verb machine-gun -guns , -gunning or -gunned
(tr) to shoot or fire at with a machine gun
Derived forms of machine gun machine gunner , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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