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noun

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as in machine gun

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verb

as in to machine-gun

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Recent Examples of tommy gun
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tommy gun
  1. machine gun
  2. submachine gun
  3. machine pistol
  4. assault rifle
  5. assault weapon
Noun
  • The shootings, one of which involved a machine gun, were carried out by Peña and co-defendants Demetrio Trujillo, 43, and his son, Jose Trujillo, 24, according to federal prosecutors.
    — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The weapons charges included allegations that Peña fired a machine gun in relation to a crime of violence.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of machine gun
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of submachine gun
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
  • 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
Definition of machine pistol
Noun
  • But after their hitman was arrested near her house on July 28, 2022, with an assault rifle and a ski mask, the Iranians wanted it back.
    — Karl Vick, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Also, a duel between a soldier with an assault rifle and a drone with a shotgun could go either way.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of assault rifle
Noun
  • Nonetheless, the presence of automatic weapons – and Mexico’s homicide rate – has spiraled since 2005, following the expiration of the U.S. ban on assault weapons, experts say.
    — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2025
  • According to Brady United, during the 10-year period the federal assault weapons ban was in effect, mass shooting fatalities were 70% less likely to occur.
    — DP Opinion, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of assault weapon

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