AK-47

[ ey-key-fawr-tee-sev-uhn ]

noun

1. a Soviet-designed, gas-operated, magazine-fed assault rifle with a caliber of 7.62 millimeters, used for automatic or semiautomatic fire. Compare AR-15 ( def ), M16 ( def ).

AK-47

noun

1. a type of Kalashnikov assault rifle

Word History and Origins

Origin of AK-47¹

First recorded in 1947; from Russian A(vtomat) K(alashnikova), automatic gun of Kalashnikov, after Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov (1919–2013), Soviet arms engineer

Word History and Origins

Origin of AK-47¹

C20: from A(utomat) K(alashnikov)

Example Sentences

Unsure whether his assailants were following him, he turned around and fired back with his AK-47.

From The Daily Beast

A search team after the shooting found two pipe bombs and an AK-47 that Frein had apparently abandoned, along with a journal.

From The Daily Beast

He also said two weapons were missing from the home, the AK-47 and the .308 rifle.

From The Daily Beast

He did not even have his own guns, though his family owned two, an AK-47 and a .308 rifle outfitted with a telescopic sight.

From The Daily Beast

An Iraqi soldier hands off his AK-47 to another soldier and leaps from the bridge.

From The Daily Beast

AK-47 manufacturing is already sadly in great profusion across our inner cities, anyway.

From Project Gutenberg