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submachinegun

submachinegun is the alternative form 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

Forms of submachinegun

pluralsubmachineguns

Questions about submachinegun

What is submachinegun the alternative form of?
Submachinegun is the alternative form of submachine gun.

Words near submachinegun in the dictionary

  1. sublyrate
  2. sublytic
  3. submachine
  4. submachine gun
  5. submachine guns
  6. submachinegun
  7. submachineguns
  8. submachines
  9. submacroblock
  10. submacroblocks
  11. submacroscale

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