machine gun
also machine-gun
Word forms: machine guns
1. countable noun
A machine gun is a gun which fires a lot of bullets one after the other very quickly.
The two sides joined battle once again using artillery, mortars and heavy machine guns.
...a burst of machine-gun fire.
2. See also sub-machine gun
Image of machine gun
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Translations:
Chinese: 机关枪
Japanese: マシンガン
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