machine gun

1. 1.

   shoot with a machine gun

   Broadergun

Questions about machine gun

What does machine gun mean?

machine gun means "a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is machine gun a common word?

machine gun is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.