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small arms

small arms noun: firearms designed to be carried and fired by a single person, and often held in the hand.

Noun

small arms pl (normally plural, singular small arm)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) Firearms designed to be carried and fired by a single person, and often held in the hand.
    • The helicopter was attacked by small arms fire.

Forms of small arms

singularsmall arm

Questions about small arms

What does small arms mean?
Small arms means firearms designed to be carried and fired by a single person, and often held in the hand.
What part of speech is small arms?
Small arms is a noun.

Words near small arms in the dictionary

  1. small and medium-sized enterprises
  2. small animal
  3. small appliance
  4. small appliances
  5. small arm
  6. small arms
  7. small ball
  8. Small Banisilan
  9. small beer
  10. small beers
  11. small bikkies

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