Meaning & use
machine gun
An automatic firearm that fires bullets rapidly and continuously while the trigger is held down.
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The soldiers set up a machine gun to defend the position.
Museums often display old machine guns from twentieth-century wars in special exhibits.
A note on using this word
Machine-gun can also be used as a verb or adjective, as in machine-gun fire, describing something rapid and continuous.
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