machine gun

Definitions

A type of fully automatic firearm that fires bullets in rapid succession by a single action of the trigger and is capable of sustained fire.

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Examples

“I'm gonna get⟳ you, baby / Like⟳ a machine gun, I'm gonna… Tak-Tak-Tak-Tak-Tak”

“Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine⟳. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.”

“Brigadier John K. Lawson's bunker on the west side of Wong Nai Chung Gap that the West Brigade used as headquarters. Brigadier Lawson and three of his men were hit by machine-gun fire escaping from the bunker on Dec. 19, 1941.”

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