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tommy-guns

tommy-guns is the plural of tommy-gun.

tommy-guns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tommy-gun.

Meaning of tommy-gun

Verb

tommy-gun (third-person singular simple present tommy-guns, present participle tommy-gunning, simple past and past participle tommy-gunned)

  1. To shoot with a Tommy gun; to fire a Tommy gun.
    • 'The Phantom was stopped soon after Jacksonville. Between Waldo and Ocala. Your compartment was tommy-gunned and bombed. Blown to bits.'1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 127

Questions about tommy-guns

What is tommy-guns the plural of?
Tommy-guns is the plural of tommy-gun.

Words near tommy-guns in the dictionary

  1. tommy-cod
  2. tommy-cods
  3. tommy-gun
  4. tommy-gunned
  5. tommy-gunning
  6. tommy-guns
  7. tommy-knocker
  8. tommy-knockers
  9. tommy-rot
  10. tommycod
  11. tommycods

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