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