submachine gun

Questions about submachine gun

What does submachine gun mean?

submachine gun means "machine gun that is a portable automatic firearm".

Is submachine gun a common word?

submachine gun 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for submachine gun come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.