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cartridge clip

American  

noun

  1. a metal frame or container holding cartridges for a magazine rifle or automatic pistol.


cartridge clip British  

noun

  1. a metallic container holding cartridges for an automatic firearm

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In the truck’s cab, police found an automatic 7.65-millimeter pistol, a cartridge clip, and several cartridges.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2016

He loaded it with a cartridge clip, and told me that all I would have to do then was squeeze the trigger release.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Fumbling among the numerous objects contained in the suit-case, his fingers encountered at length a cartridge clip.

From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Hoskins, Gayle Porter

In a groove where the butt was heaviest, a cartridge clip held some twenty electric bullets that, by means of a spring, automatically took their places in the barrel of the rifle.

From Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Walter, F. P.

Where the devil's that cartridge clip you took away from me?...

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William

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