: a Soviet-designed 7.62 mm (.30 cal.) gas-operated magazine-fed rifle for automatic or semiautomatic fire

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School shootings are an obvious one, made explicitly so by Archer seeing a giant AK-47 with the number 217 in red floating above a house. Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Prosecutors allege that these individuals committed acts of violence using weapons including AK-47s, grenades, and machine guns. Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025 The day before the murders, Bell accompanied Williams to buy an AK-47, magazine devices and bullets. Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025 One of the men shot an AK-47 through the officer’s window, wounding him. Longreads, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for AK-47

Word History

Etymology

Russian avtomat Kalashnikova 1947 Kalashnikov automatic rifle of 1947

First Known Use

1962, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of AK-47 was in 1962

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“AK-47.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/AK-47. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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