machine gun
noun [C]Definition
› an automatic gun that can fire a lot of bullets one after the other very quickly: Several journalists were caught in machine-gun fire.Handguns and riflesAiming and aimHand weapons
(Definition of machine gun noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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