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machine-gun

[ muh-sheen-guhn ]

/ məˈʃinˌgʌn /

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verb (used with object), ma·chine-gunned, ma·chine-gun·ning.

to shoot at with a machine gun.

Origin of machine-gun

First recorded in 1880–85

OTHER WORDS FROM machine-gun

machine gunner, noun

Words nearby machine-gun

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Definition for machine-gun (2 of 2)

machine gun

noun

a small arm operated by a mechanism, able to deliver a rapid and continuous fire of bullets as long as the trigger is pressed.

Origin of machine gun

First recorded in 1865–70

Example sentences from the Web for machine-gun

Mothers pushed their children's heads down and they sped through town, leaving a trail of machine-gun shells in their wake.

‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis |Nina Strochlic |November 23, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
A burst of machine-gun fire blew off the wall of a nearby building—the commandos were approaching.

‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis |Nina Strochlic |November 23, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But for once we see something new: The singer reloads the bolt of his machine-gun in time with the music.

Ukraine Separatists' Pro-Putin Raps |Oleg Shynkarenko |June 23, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
He speaks so quickly that a clichéd comparison to a machine-gun is unavoidable.

In Defense of a Good Guy With a Gun |Brian Castner |April 28, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Fifty percent were drug-related; 25 percent died from machine-gun fire; 15 percent were public executions.

Cocaine Cowboys |Gerald Posner |October 12, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
At one time the Mosque was deserted by all except one machine-gun officer, who continued to work his gun single-handed.

With the British Army in The Holy Land |Henry Osmond Lock
Machine-gun sections arrived with empty wagons; they had lost all their guns.

A German deserter's war experience |Anonymous
The Germans did not seem to like them, as their discharge always drew a lot of machine-gun fire in reply.

Q.6.a and Other places |Francis Buckley
Our daily work was making reserve defences, trenches, deep dugouts, and machine-gun emplacements between Vermelles and Loos.

Q.6.a and Other places |Francis Buckley
He swung his machine-gun round on its turret mounting and, thrusting the muzzle down, rattled off a score of rounds.

Air Men o' War |Boyd Cable

British Dictionary definitions for machine-gun

machine gun

noun

a rapid-firing automatic gun, usually mounted, from which small-arms ammunition is discharged
(as modifier)machine-gun fire

verb machine-gun -guns, -gunning or -gunned

(tr) to shoot or fire at with a machine gun

Derived forms of machine gun

machine gunner, noun