automatic firearm

1. 1.

   a firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released

   Synonymsautomatic gunautomatic weapon

   Broaderautoloader

   Narrowerautomatic pistolautomatic riflemachine gun

Questions about automatic firearm

What does automatic firearm mean?

automatic firearm means "a firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released".

What is another word for automatic firearm?

Close synonyms include automatic gun, automatic weapon. 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 automatic firearm a common word?

automatic firearm 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.