Stechkinn.
/ˈstɛtʃkɪn/ A Soviet 9mm automatic or semi-automatic machine pistol. Also attributive.
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1962 Guns Rev. May 23/2 The Soviets..in 1961 produce[d] an article ostensibly similar in function if not in cyclic rate, to the egregious Star of 1934. It is known as the Stechkin Machine Pistol or ‘APS’ in Russian notation.
1974 ‘J. Graham’ Bloody Passage v. 82 A Stechkin..A true machine pistol. Best I've seen since the Mauser.
1979 K. Bonfiglioli After You with Pistol xv. 109 The owner of the tan-coloured hand was grasping a large, crude Stechkin automatic pistol... The Stechkin is by no means a lady's handbag-gun.
1981 J. Trenhaile Kyril i. 4 ‘You have the gun?’ In answer Yevchenko pressed a Stechkin into Stanov's hand.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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