Definition of machine-gun
: characterized by rapidity and sharpness : rapid-fire
- a comic's machine-gun delivery
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First Known Use of machine-gun
1906
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Definition of machine gun
: a gun for sustained rapid fire that uses bullets;
broadly
: an automatic weapon
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machine-gun
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machine gunner
nounExamples of machine gun in a Sentence
They heard the sound of machine-gun fire.
Recent Examples of machine gun from the Web
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Her only weapons are four .50-caliber machine guns.
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Fox said Lee stepped up to help a platoon that had suffered two casualties and in the process took out a machine gun bunker.
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An assault rifle is fully automatic -- a machine gun.
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In that case, the gunman parked himself on the 32nd floor of a hotel near a country music concert and fired indiscriminately into the crowd with assault weapons — which were also retooled with bump stocks to mimic the firepower of machine guns.
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The full, command-wide inventory at eight bases under the Air Force Global Strike Command will cover all small arms, machine guns, pistols, rifles and grenades, according to the official.
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The devices make a semi-automatic rifle shoot like a machine gun.
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Bombs, shells, bullets, cannons, planes, machine guns: Stalingrad, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific, Libya; English planes over Italy and Germany.
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Marines, armed with sub-machine guns, patrolled the area.
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First Known Use of machine gun
1867
MACHINE-GUN Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of machine gun for English Language Learners
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: a gun that is able to shoot many bullets very quickly one after the other
MACHINE-GUN Defined for Kids
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Definition of machine gun for Students
: a gun that fires bullets continuously and rapidly
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