typw

Noun

typewriter (plural typewriters)

1. A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.
2. (archaic) One who uses a typewriter; a typist.
   • So many mongrel words, like typist and typewritist, have been introduced, we propose a fixed designation of—typewriter, to mean the person who writes, and writing machine, the device.1894, Bates Torrey, “Lesson XIII”, in Practical Typewriting: by the All‐Finger Method, Which Leads to Operation by Touch, 3rd edition, New York: Fowler & Wells Co., (59.) Letter Writing, page 26

   Synonyms:

   typist

3. (US, dated, slang) A machine gun or submachine gun (from the noise it makes when firing).
   • The battle had opened in earnest. From the wooded ridge came in reply the clacking of "typewriters,” and bullets whined over our heads.1973, Edgar B. Jackson, Fall Out to the Right of the Road!, page 321
4. A prank in which fingers are jabbed roughly onto someone's chest followed by striking them over the ear in imitation of using an old-fashioned typewriter.