machine gun
noun
a small arm operated by a mechanism, able to deliver a rapid and continuous fire of bullets as long as the trigger is pressed.
machine-gunning
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present participleof machine-gun.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Talk about using it as ammo, I’m machine-gunning love.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2021
When he pauses mid-strut to perform his signature move of machine-gunning the crowd with his 1962 guitar, he brings the house down.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 7, 2013
"I think," said Sophie, machine-gunning us through her fringe, "I have a bra named after me."
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2010
He escaped machine-gunning by a Nazi flyer on New Year's Eve, 1944, made friends among the Belgians by his understanding and sympathy, and returned to the U.S. at the end of the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of machine-gunning them, he brought his heel down hard on the ping-pong ball that came rolling toward him off the paddle of one of the two officers playing.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
