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submachine guns

submachine guns is the plural of submachine gun.

Meaning of submachine gun

Noun

submachine gun (plural submachine guns)

  1. A type of short range machine gun that is carried as a personal weapon and uses pistol ammunition.
    • Bare-chested children and their parents gathered in doorways, on roofs and in windows as he passed, watched warily by Brazilian troops carrying submachine guns.2007 March 9, Jim Rutenberg, Larry Rohter, “Bush’s South America Tour Incites Fight for Attention”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about submachine guns

What is submachine guns the plural of?
Submachine guns is the plural of submachine gun.

Words near submachine guns in the dictionary

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  2. sublyrate
  3. sublytic
  4. submachine
  5. submachine gun
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  9. submachines
  10. submacroblock
  11. submacroblocks

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