sten gun

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   a lightweight British submachine gun

   Broadersubmachine gun

   United Kingdom

Questions about sten gun

What does sten gun mean?

sten gun means "a lightweight British submachine gun".

Is sten gun a common word?

sten 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.