machine gun

Speech parts

1. machine gun - Noun

2. machine gun - Verb

Meaning

a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)

shoot with a machine gun

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

machine-gun

Synonyms

lance cleaver knife revolver spike gatling gun hatchet gun missile bomb rifle shotgun pistol spear firearm
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Antonyms

man person spoon bare hands

Hypernyms

gun automatic gun automatic weapon automatic firearm

Hyponyms

gatling gun peacemaker automatic Spandau automatic rifle Browning machine gun

Examples

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun. Fidel Castro

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun. Kurt Vonnegut

LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me. Charles Bukowski

There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through. Charles Bukowski

Some of you may be aware our gun laws in the United States don't make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon any time - without much if any regulation, they can buy it over the Internet, they can buy machine gun. Barack Obama

Tales came like out of the barrel of a machine gun. Finnish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

machine for selling items machine for selling small articles machine generated translation machine gunner machine head machine industry