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Definition of tommy gun

as in machine gun

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Noun

Gunfire disrupts the silence as Raya emerges through smoke, armed with a tommy gun. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Jan. 2026

Verb

His tommy-gun dialogue, much of it laced with withering invective and punctuated with profanity, started a shift in the language of both theater and movies in this country. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 2025

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Noun

In the lead-up to the election, white business owners had ordered a state-of-the-art machine gun that could fire more than four hundred rounds a minute.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
Pinpoint Where Value Is Being Lost Honestly, almost everyone is trying to kill an ant with a machine gun.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

Definition of machine gun

Verb

And the Israeli army remains a few miles south, its presence marked by the occasional plume of smoke where its artillery hits, and the rip of machine-gun fire.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026
Armed guards patrolled federal buildings; machine-gun-toting snipers perched on rooftops.

— Sarita Gupta, Time, 2 June 2026

Definition of machine-gun

Noun

On the roof, a three-year-old boy from Chile plays with a toy submachine gun, pointing it at anyone who comes within range.

— Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
Police learned Pyles owns a handgun and a submachine gun, according to charging documents.

— Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025

Definition of submachine gun

Noun

Nicolas Cage headlines through the Nick Cage Event Pass running June 25 to July 23, whose free track hands out the AN-94 assault rifle and Executioner's Duet melee weapon.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
When Jonah was 3, sound asleep in his room at his older sister’s birthday party, bullets from an assault rifle cracked through the windows of Jamon’s house and left holes above his bed.

— Luca Evans, Denver Post, 21 June 2026

Definition of assault rifle

Noun

Machado faces dozens of charges, including seven counts of murder, four counts of possession of an unlicensed assault weapon and multiple charges related to the possession of explosives.

— Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 4 June 2026
Lee was later charged with four counts of possession of an assault weapon on July 26, 2024, according to the FBI.

— Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 21 May 2026

Definition of assault weapon

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