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Schmeisser

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Schmeis·ser  (shmsr)
n.
Any of various German automatic weapons designed for use by individual troops during World War II, especially either of two types of submachine gun.

[After Hugo Schmeisser, 20th-century German arms engineer (to whom this type of weapon was mistakenly attributed by Allied military men).]


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He carried a Schmeisser submachine gun and wore an expression of disdain.
The discovery of the gastroliths associated with this plesiosaur specimen were particularly exciting because most plesiosaur gastroliths are found associated with the long-neck morphotype," Schmeisser explained, adding that "the stones described in our paper are much lighter and smaller than those found in long-neck plesiosaurs.
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