machine-gun

present singular third person machine-guns · participle present machine-gunning · participle past machine-gunned · past machine-gunned

1. To fire a machine gun.
2. To shoot (people, etc.) with a machine gun.

   During a time when the New Right is becoming increasingly powerful, when gay people are machine-gunned down in the streets, lesbians and gay men are recognizing the necessity of helping each other out.

   1980 December 6, “Thank You”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 4

3. To shoot (something) out of or as if out of a machine gun.

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   The opportunity for examining this historical phenomenon was lost on the producers of Making Sense of the Sixties, as images of rock festivals and tragedies were machine-gunned at the viewer, presumably to recreate a sense of the general confusion (as opposed to the cultural excitement) of the period.

   1991 February 4, Owen Shows, “Start Making Sense”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 16