sub-machine-gun

noun

1. a portable automatic or semiautomatic light gun with a short barrel, firing pistol ammunition: designed to be fired from the hip or shoulder

Example Sentences

Everyone was far more interested in the black Thompson sub-machine gun he held cradled over one arm.

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He had swung the sub-machine gun up and was making it spit nickel-jacketed lead.

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His other hand chopped down on the sub-machine gun and yanked it from the falling German's hands.

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Clutching the sub-machine gun, he ran body well bent forward and low to the ground.

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Each gripped a sub-machine gun in his hands and blazed away at the coasting Vultee!

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