machine gun

machine gun

noun

Definition of MACHINE GUN

: a gun for sustained rapid fire that uses bullets; broadly : an automatic weapon

— machine–gun verb

— machine gun·ner noun

Examples of MACHINE GUN

1. They heard the sound of machine-gun fire.

First Known Use of MACHINE GUN

1867

Rhymes with MACHINE GUN

Acheron, Algonquin, allemande, all-or-none, Balzacian, give the gun, hit-and-run, jump the gun, machine-gun, megaton, midnight sun, one-on-one, one-to-one, on the run, overrun, pellet gun, radar gun, ride shotgun, riot gun, run-and-gun, Sally Lunn, scattergun, smoking gun, tommy gun, twenty-one, underdone, underrun, water gun