machine gun

noun
🔊/məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/
🔊/məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/
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  1. a gun that fires many bullets one after the other very quickly机关枪;机枪
    • a burst/hail of machine-gun fire一阵猛烈的机关枪扫射
    • They were shooting heavy machine guns and mortars at us.他们向我们射击重型机枪和迫击炮。
    see also sub-machine gun
    Extra Examples
    • There was a machine gun mounted on the back of the Jeep.吉普车的后部架着一挺机关枪。
    • a .50-calibre/.50-caliber machine gun一挺 0.5 英寸口径的机关枪
    Topics War and conflictc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryMachine gun is used before these nouns:
    • bullet
    • fire
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