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machine-gun

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
machine gun

▶noun an automatic gun that fires bullets in rapid succession for as long as the trigger is pressed. ▶verb (machine-gun) shoot with a machine gun.

– derivatives
machine-gunner noun.

'machine-gun' also found in these Oxford entries:

Bren gun - Browning - burp gun - curtain fire - Gatling gun - Kalashnikov - Lewis gun - machine gun - MG - Sten gun - strafe - sub-machine gun - technical - tommy gun - Uzi

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