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| Bren gun |
a .303 caliber gas-operated submachine gun used by the British army in World War II. |
| Gatling gun |
an early machine gun with a revolving cluster of barrels, each of which was automatically loaded and fired when the cluster was rotated. |
| machine-gun |
to shoot at, wound, or kill with a machine gun. |
| machine pistol |
a light submachine gun. |
| pillbox |
a small fortified enclosure for a machine gunner or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| strafe |
to fire on (something on the ground or water) with machine guns from low-flying aircraft. [1/2 definitions] |
| Thompson submachine gun |
a portable .45-caliber submachine gun; tommy gun. |
| tommy gun |
(informal) the Thompson submachine gun, or a gun like it. |
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