tommy gun

1. 1.

   a .45-caliber submachine gun

   SynonymsThompson submachine gun

   Broadersubmachine gun

Questions about tommy gun

What does tommy gun mean?

tommy gun means "a .45-caliber submachine gun".

What is another word for tommy gun?

Close synonyms include Thompson submachine 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 tommy gun a common word?

tommy 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.