bren gun

1. 1.

   a submachine gun operated by gas pressure; used by the British in World War II

   SynonymsBren

   Broadersubmachine gun

Questions about bren gun

What does bren gun mean?

bren gun means "a submachine gun operated by gas pressure; used by the British in World War II".

What is another word for bren gun?

Close synonyms include Bren. 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 bren gun a common word?

bren 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.