verb (used with object), ma·chine-gunned, ma·chine-gun·ning.
- to shoot at with a machine gun.
noun
- a small arm operated by a mechanism, able to deliver a rapid and continuous fire of bullets as long as the trigger is pressed.
noun
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- a rapid-firing automatic gun, usually mounted, from which small-arms ammunition is discharged
- (as modifier)machine-gun fire
verb machine-gun -guns, -gunning or -gunned
- (tr) to shoot or fire at with a machine gun
n.1870, from machine (n.) + gun (n.). As a verb from 1915. Related: Machine-gunned; machine-gunning.