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Recent Examples of tommy gun
Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
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
Guy comes up, holding a tommy gun.
—George Saunders, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
That applies to all the dialogue, which doesn’t change at all from character to character, each of them firing off pop culture references like a tommy gun.
—Joshua Alston, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
On the back of the bottle was a ghost engraving: the original G-man in a fedora, toting a tommy gun.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
The image of a mask-wearing authoritarian pointing a tommy gun at first looks like irresistible kitsch but now seems disturbingly accurate for the COVID apocalypse.
—Armond White, National Review, 20 Aug. 2021
In the 1930s, the fee doubled the cost of a new tommy gun.
—Adam Weinstein, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2020
The decade was also rife with poisonous bathtub gin, murderous Mafia dons, and the merciless rat-a-tat of tommy guns, as well as myriad political and cultural struggles simmering beneath the surface.
—Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, 17 Jan. 2020
David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
After speeches by longtime colleagues (the F.B.I. director, Christopher Wray, presented him with a replica tommy gun), Garland spoke.
—Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
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
Guy comes up, holding a tommy gun.
—George Saunders, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
That applies to all the dialogue, which doesn’t change at all from character to character, each of them firing off pop culture references like a tommy gun.
—Joshua Alston, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
On the back of the bottle was a ghost engraving: the original G-man in a fedora, toting a tommy gun.
—Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
The image of a mask-wearing authoritarian pointing a tommy gun at first looks like irresistible kitsch but now seems disturbingly accurate for the COVID apocalypse.
—Armond White, National Review, 20 Aug. 2021
In the 1930s, the fee doubled the cost of a new tommy gun.
—Adam Weinstein, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2020
The decade was also rife with poisonous bathtub gin, murderous Mafia dons, and the merciless rat-a-tat of tommy guns, as well as myriad political and cultural struggles simmering beneath the surface.
—Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, 17 Jan. 2020
Verb
His tommy-gun dialogue, much of it laced with withering invective and punctuated with profanity, started a shift in the language of both theater and movies in this country.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tommy gun
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The 34-year-old man and his 25-year-old girlfriend, both Oakland residents, were charged with being felons in possession of firearms, possessing a machine gun, and possessing property that was stolen from the U.S. Coast Guard in Oakland, court records show.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
4 July 2025
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Most notably, the engine compartment has been reinforced with armor to better withstand machine gun fire.—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
Noun
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Rock’s talent includes shooting down German fighter planes with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2025
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Budweiser factories received bomb threats, customers boycotted the beer, and MAGA musician Kid Rock filmed himself shooting up 12-packs with a submachine gun, tears in his eyes.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
26 Feb. 2025
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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
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Prosecutors said police found two weapons in the getaway car when the men were detained on a highway about 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside Amsterdam, a Heckler and Koch machine pistol and, in a Louis Vuitton bag, a blank-firing pistol that had been modified to take 9-millimeter rounds.—
MIKE CORDER,
ajc,
18 Oct. 2021
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The suit seeks to strike parts of the ordinance that ban anyone under 21 from having a handgun or ammunition and a prohibition on anyone between the ages of 18 and 20 from possessing a semiautomatic assault rifle with certain exceptions.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
27 June 2025
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Officers with assault rifles and faces covered pulled those arrested into vans and trucks.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025
Noun
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That’s the number of states, including Maryland, that have assault weapons bans in place, as compiled by pro-gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Gun control advocates have been pushing for an assault weapons ban in Rhode Island for more than a decade.—
Kimberlee Kruesi,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2025
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“Tommy gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tommy%20gun. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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