machine gun

Definition of Machine Gun in English :

1. machine gun

a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)

2. machine gun

shoot with a machine gun

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Machine Gun

noun

1.

a.

a rapid-firing automatic gun, usually mounted, from which small-arms ammunition is discharged

b.

(as modifier)

machine-gun fire

verb -guns, -gunning or -gunned

2. (transitive)

to shoot or fire at with a machine-gun

an automatic gun, usually mounted and with a cooling apparatus, firing a rapid and continuous stream of bullets

n.

A gun that fires rapidly and continuously as long as the trigger is held back.

tr.v. ma·chine-gunned, ma·chine-gun·ning, ma·chine-guns

To fire at or kill with a machine gun.

adj.

Fast and staccato: a machine-gun style of speaking.