machine gun
/məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/
machine gun noun: 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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Noun
machine gun (plural machine guns)
- 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.
- I'm gonna get you, baby / Like a machine gun, I'm gonna… Tak-Tak-Tak-Tak-Tak1974, “I'm Gonna Get You”, performed by Eleanore Mills
- 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.2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
machine gun meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
machine gun in Hindi
- type of firearm
- मशीन गन maśīn gan
machine gun in Tamil
- type of firearm
- இயந்திரத் துப்பாக்கி iyantirat tuppākki
machine gun in Urdu
- type of firearm
- مشین گن maśīn gan
machine gun in Bengali
- type of firearm
- যন্ত্রচালিত গান jontrocalito gan, মেশিন গান meśin gan
More languagesFewer languages
- machine gun in Kannada
- ಮಷಿನ್ ಗನ್, ಯಂತ್ರ ಫಿರಂಗಿ, ಫಿರಂಗಿ ಯಂತ್ರ
- machine gun in Pashto
- ماشينګن māšingan
- machine gun in Tagalog
- ulipaltog, ametralyadora, masinggan
- machine gun in Arabic
- رَشَاش rašāš, مِتْرالِيُوز mitrāliyōz
- machine gun in Malay
- mesingan
- machine gun in Indonesian
- senapan mesin
- machine gun in Persian
- مسلسل mosalsal, تیربار tirbâr, ماشیندار mâšindâr
- machine gun in Thai
- ปืนกล bpʉʉn-gon
- machine gun in Vietnamese
- súng máy, súng liên thanh
- machine gun in Myanmar
- စက်သေနတ် caksenat
Forms of machine gun
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Words formed from machine gun
Questions about machine gun
- What does machine gun mean?
- Machine gun means 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.
- What is machine gun in Hindi?
- Machine gun in Hindi is मशीन गन (maśīn gan). See Machine gun meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is machine gun?
- Machine gun is a noun.
- How do you pronounce machine gun?
- Machine gun is pronounced /məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/.
- What is the plural of machine gun?
- The plural of machine gun is machine guns.
Words near machine gun in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: machine gun (page history and authors); machine gun (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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