automatic pistol

1. 1.

   a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released

   Synonymsautomatic

   Broaderpistolautomatic firearm

Questions about automatic pistol

What does automatic pistol mean?

automatic pistol means "a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released".

What is another word for automatic pistol?

Close synonyms include automatic. 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 pistol a common word?

automatic pistol 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.