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tommy guns

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plural of tommy gun

Synonyms of tommy guns

(Entry 1 of 2)

as in assault weapons, assault rifles

Synonyms & Near Synonyms for tommy guns

AK-47s,
assault rifles,
assault weapons,
automatics,
carbines,
machine guns,
machine pistols,
repeaters,
submachine guns

blunderbusses,
breechloaders,
culverins,
fieldpieces,
firelocks,
flintlocks,
harquebuses
(or arquebuses),
matchlocks,
muskets,
rifles,
shotguns,
smoothbores,
twenty-twos
(or .22s)

spearguns

self-loaders,
semiautomatics

derringers,
forty-fives
(or .45s),
gats
[slang],
handguns,
pistols,
revolvers,
rods
[slang],
roscoes
[slang],
sidearms,
six-guns,
six-shooters,
zip guns

arms,
firearms,
guns,
heat
[slang],
pieces,
small arms

tommy-guns

verb

present tense third-person singular of tommy-gun

Synonyms of tommy-guns (Entry 2 of 2)

as in machine-guns

Synonyms & Near Synonyms for tommy-guns

machine-guns

pistols,
shotguns

croaks
[slang],
destroys,
dispatches,
does in,
fells,
ices
[slang],
kills,
slays

blasts (at),
fires (at)

annihilates,
blots out,
butchers,
decimates,
massacres,
slaughters,
wipes out

blazes,
peppers,
potshots,
snipes (at)

blows away,
brings down,
drops,
picks off,
shoots down

drills,
guns,
plugs,
pops,
shoots

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