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PDW

PDW is the initialism of personal defense weapon.

Meaning of personal defense weapon

Noun

personal defense weapon (plural personal defense weapons)

  1. A compact fully-automatic or semi-automatic firearm similar to a submachine gun but firing a rifle round.
    Synonyms:
    PDW

Forms of PDW

pluralPDWs

Questions about PDW

What is PDW the initialism of?
PDW is the initialism of personal defense weapon.

Words near PDW in the dictionary

  1. PDT
  2. PDTs
  3. PDU
  4. PDU30
  5. PDUs
  6. PDW
  7. PDWs
  8. PDX
  9. pe
  10. Pe Ell
  11. Pe Heen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PDW (page history and authors); personal defense weapon (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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