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sub-machine-gun

noun

  1. a portable automatic or semiautomatic light gun with a short barrel, firing pistol ammunition: designed to be fired from the hip or shoulder
“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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Everyone was far more interested in the black Thompson sub-machine gun he held cradled over one arm.

He had swung the sub-machine gun up and was making it spit nickel-jacketed lead.

His other hand chopped down on the sub-machine gun and yanked it from the falling German's hands.

Clutching the sub-machine gun, he ran body well bent forward and low to the ground.

Each gripped a sub-machine gun in his hands and blazed away at the coasting Vultee!

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