assault rifle

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsassault gun

   Broaderautomatic rifle

   military

Questions about assault rifle

What does assault rifle mean?

assault rifle means "any of the automatic rifles or semiautomatic rifles with large magazines designed for military use".

What is another word for assault rifle?

Close synonyms include assault gun. 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 rifle a common word?

assault rifle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.