assault gun

1. 1.

   any of the automatic rifles or semiautomatic rifles with large magazines designed for military use

   Synonymsassault rifle

   Broaderautomatic rifle

   military

2. 2.

   an armored vehicle with the chassis of a tank (but no turret) and a large gun; used as an antitank weapon and to support infantry

   Broaderarmored vehicle

Questions about assault gun

What does assault gun mean?

assault gun means "any of the automatic rifles or semiautomatic rifles with large magazines designed for military use". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for assault gun?

Close synonyms include assault rifle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is assault gun a common word?

assault gun is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.