machine pistol

1. 1.

   a fully automatic pistol; a small submachine gun

   Synonymsburp gun

   Broadersubmachine gun

Questions about machine pistol

What does machine pistol mean?

machine pistol means "a fully automatic pistol; a small submachine gun".

What is another word for machine pistol?

Close synonyms include burp 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 machine pistol a common word?

machine 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.