Machine-gun
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Machine-gun is a verb meaning To fire a machine gun.
Meaning
To fire a machine gun.
More Meanings
- To shoot (people, etc.) with a machine gun.
- To shoot (something) out of or as if out of a machine gun.
Example Sentences
During a time when the New Right is becoming increasingly powerful, when gay people are machine-gunned down in the streets, lesbians and gay men are recognizing the necessity of helping each other out.
The opportunity for examining this historical phenomenon was lost on the producers of Making Sense of the Sixties, as images of rock festivals and tragedies were machine-gunned at the viewer, presumably to recreate a sense of the general confusion (as opposed to the cultural excitement) of the period.
Word Forms
- machine-guns
- machine-gunning
- machine-gunned
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gun, machinegun, machine, calibre, gunner, automatic.
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