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noun

Definition of machine gun

as in machine pistol

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Noun

On his cellphone, according to the complaint, investigators found messages about drug trafficking and firearms, including devices capable of converting Glock pistols into a fully automatic machine gun. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 In a milestone for naval warfare, a Ukrainian sea drone even used a machine gun to sink a Russian kamikaze drone boat carrying explosives in September 2026. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 6 Oct. 2026

Verb

As seen in a recent action in Kupiansk, machine-gun robots can provide suppressive fire so the others can get through. — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026 Iranian speed boats raking ships with machine-gun fire in the Strait of Hormuz. — Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for machine gun

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Noun

One casing is a 9mm caliber, likely a pistol, or a machine pistol or a submachine gun, Weir said.

— Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN, 26 June 2024
Deputies also allegedly found a MAC-10 machine pistol and a 9 mm handgun under the passenger seat.

— Jason Green, The Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2019

Definition of machine pistol

Noun

On the roof, a three-year-old boy from Chile plays with a toy submachine gun, pointing it at anyone who comes within range.

— Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
Police learned Pyles owns a handgun and a submachine gun, according to charging documents.

— Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025

Definition of submachine gun

Verb

There have been sets with three tight ends, formations that start under center and some that use formation shifts to move from a single-back set to shotgun.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Aug. 2026
Westman had decorated the assault rifle and shotgun with hate speech in ways that aligned with the dark underbelly of alt-right meme culture that regularly disparages people of color, Jewish people, the LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities.

— Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025

Definition of shotgun

Noun

Gunfire disrupts the silence as Raya emerges through smoke, armed with a tommy gun.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026
Gauging from the trailer, this grisly period piece appears to be set in the South with Jordan starring in a dual role as a pair of twins, at least one of whom gets to spray bullets with a retro tommy gun.

— Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025

Definition of tommy gun

Verb

Chemically destroying the channel in adult mouse osteocytes accelerated signs of aging far beyond the skeleton, affecting the brain, liver, and muscles.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Nov. 2026
The light generates highly reactive chlorine radicals that activate carbon atoms along the polymer chains without destroying them.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of destroy

Noun

Bettison says the man picked up an assault rifle and pointed it toward officers, resulting in an exchange of gunfire between police and the man.

— DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Then in 1989, an assailant attacked an elementary school in Stockton, California, using an assault rifle to kill five people and wound 29, prompting public outcry and calls to restrict such weapons.

— Robert Spitzer, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of assault rifle

Verb

An Israeli strike in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis killed five people, according to Nasser Hospital, where the bodies were taken.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
But the seventh entry, alongside the Resident Evil 2 Remake in 2019, breathed new life into the franchise, which has proved as tough to kill as any of Umbrella's bioweapons.

— Daryl Baxter, Space.com, 1 Nov. 2026

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