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machine gun

1

noun

  1. a small arm operated by a mechanism, able to deliver a rapid and continuous fire of bullets as long as the trigger is pressed.


machine-gun

2

[ muh-sheen-guhn ]

verb (used with object)

machine-gunned, machine-gunning.
  1. to shoot at with a machine gun.

machine gun

noun

    1. a rapid-firing automatic gun, usually mounted, from which small-arms ammunition is discharged
    2. ( as modifier )

      machine-gun fire

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to shoot or fire at with a machine gun
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • machine gunner, noun
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  • machine gunner noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of machine gun1

First recorded in 1865–70

Origin of machine gun2

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

The Ta'ang National Liberation Army, an armed rebel group, said that military troops shot at the convoy of nine vehicles with machine guns in eastern Shan State.

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A 15-year-old girl who was hit by Israeli machine gun fire while riding her bicycle was one of the many wounded children that Dr Perlmutter said he had to operate on.

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Last year, the court’s conservative majority blocked a regulation supported by both the Trump and Biden administrations that had outlawed “bump stocks,†which allowed semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like a machine gun.

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On hearing his name, one pensioner grabs her crutch and wields it like a machine gun, shouting that he is dangerous.

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According to The Times, the Russian merchant ship was transporting military hardware from the Russian naval base in Tartus, Syria, with crew on the accompanying warship seen burning papers and manning the ship's machine guns.

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