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Tommy gun

noun

  1. any submachine gun.


Tommy gun

noun

  1. an informal name for Thompson sub-machine-gun
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of Tommy gun1

First recorded in 1920–25; by shortening
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Example Sentences

Why should I worry about a man with a tommy gun 2,000 miles away?

I pulled around the corner onto Harper street, and into the path of a tommy gun's fire.

His fingers gripped the stock of the tommy-gun so tightly the knuckles showed white.

For want of something better to do, he took down a tommy gun from a rack near Segador's seat and examined it for dust and grease.

He could distinguish the heavy thud of the Tommy-gun, the sharper crack of the carbine, but other weapons were also firing.

Before the boys piled in, Stan handed his tommy-gun to Allison.

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