Definitions for machine-gun

machine-gun ma·chine-gun

Spelling: [muh-sheen-guhn]
IPA: /məˈʃinˌgʌn/

Machine-Gun is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 456 anagrams from letters in machine-gun (-aceghimnnu).

Definitions for machine-gun

noun

  1. a small arm operated by a mechanism, able to deliver a rapid and continuous fire of bullets as long as the trigger is pressed.

verb (used with object)

  1. to shoot at with a machine gun.

Origin of machine-gun

First recorded in 1880-85

Examples for machine-gun

Earl and Leon held the machine-gun ready for instant action.

A machine-gun was mounted on board and several bombs were also to be carried.

Mothers pushed their children's heads down and they sped through town, leaving a trail of machine-gun shells in their wake.

Fifty percent were drug-related; 25 percent died from machine-gun fire; 15 percent were public executions.

But for once we see something new: The singer reloads the bolt of his machine-gun in time with the music.

He speaks so quickly that a clichéd comparison to a machine-gun is unavoidable.

To-day you couldn't get me out of Kentucky with a machine-gun!

He listened to shells whistle by and the whipcrack of machine-gun bullets.

A burst of machine-gun fire blew off the wall of a nearby building—the commandos were approaching.

machine-gun fire in the wood we had left was hotter than ever.

Word Value for machine-gun
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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