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ˌsub-maˈchine-gun
[sub- 5 b.]
A light portable machine-gun firing ammunition of the same type and calibre as a pistol. Cf. Thompson.
1926[see Thompson]. 1934Sun (Baltimore) 4 Dec. 3/5 None of these companies manufacture the deadly submachine gun in popular use by criminals. 1942J. Steinbeck Moon is Down 2 Grey-helmeted men who carried sub-machine-guns in their arms. 1951‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids vi. 112, I dropped down, pulling Jocella with me as the clatter of a sub-machine gun began. 1965J. A. Michener Source (1966) 816 Little Vered in her boxlike hat came darting in with her submachine gun spurting. 1973G. Greene Honorary Consul iii. iii. 132 A stranger stood there waving a sub-machine gun at him. |