machine gun
noun/məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/
/məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/
- a gun that fires many bullets one after the other very quickly
- a burst/hail of machine-gun fire
- They were shooting heavy machine guns and mortars at us.
Extra ExamplesTopics War and conflictc2- There was a machine gun mounted on the back of the Jeep.
- a .50-calibre/.50-caliber machine gun
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMachine gun is used before these nouns:- bullet
- fire
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