machine pistol

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machine pistol

n.
A lightweight automatic submachine gun designed to be fired when held by one or two hands.
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Noun1.machine pistol - a fully automatic pistolmachine pistol - a fully automatic pistol; a small submachine gun
burp gun
submachine gun - machine gun that is a portable automatic firearm
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The H&K VP70 offers some interesting variations on traditional machine pistols. For one thing, a semi-auto version was marketed at the same times as the machine pistol version and preceded Glock in offering a polymer-framed, high-magazine capacity 9x19mm pistol.
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