machinegun

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A form of machine gun — A type of fully automatic firearm that fires bullets in rapid succession by a single action of the trigger and is capable of sustained fire.

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Meanings

nounmachinegun (plural machineguns)

plural machineguns

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of machine gun.

    The raids by machinegun toting police people on Gay bars in Montreal

    1978 April 22, “Book Shipment from New York Seized by Customs”, in Gay Community News, page 3
verbmachinegun (third-person singular simple present machineguns, present participle machinegunning, simple past and past participle machinegunned)

present singular third person machineguns · participle present machinegunning · participle past machinegunned · past machinegunned

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of machine-gun.

    However, one group of Americans at the Embassy doesn’t creep around quivering in anxiety about being RPGed or machinegunned.

    1981 November 28, B.P., “U.S. Embassy”, in Soldier of Fortune, volume 6, number 11, page 53
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    Jon & Kate Plus 8. Not the name of a horrific-sounding midget-porn movie. It’s the reality show that everyone is talking about. Alright, not everyone. We haven’t been talking about Jon & Kate Plus 8. But that’s because we’ve only figured out what it is. It’s a show about a couple plagued by the fact that the woman keeps machinegunning babies out of her vagina and one of them hit the milkman in the eye. Or something.

    2009 May 22, Stuart Heritage, “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”, in Hecklerspray, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2024

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchmachine
  2. Englishmachine
  3. Englishgun
  4. Englishmachinegun

From machine + gun.

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Cite this entry
APA

machinegun. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/machinegun

MLA

“machinegun.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/machinegun. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “machinegun,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/machinegun.

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