Tommy gun

noun

Thompson submachine gun.

any submachine gun.

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Origin of Tommy gun

First recorded in 1920–25; by shortening

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Examples from the Web for tommy gun

And they've got four sawed-off shotguns and a tommy-gun in the back seat.
The Ambulance Made Two Trips|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Elena took a seat opposite him, poised on its edge, the tommy-gun in her lap.
The Sensitive Man|Poul William Anderson
Implacably, the big guard brought up his Tommy-gun and let it rattle.
Satan and the Comrades|Ralph Bennitt
He was pacing restlessly up and down with a tommy-gun in his hands.
The Sensitive Man|Poul William Anderson

He could distinguish the heavy thud of the Tommy-gun, the sharper crack of the carbine, but other weapons were also firing.
Sinister Paradise|Robert Moore Williams

British Dictionary definitions for tommy gun

Tommy gun

noun

an informal name for Thompson sub-machine-gun

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Tommy gun

noun

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Tommy gun

noun