Tommy gun

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Tommy gun

n. Informal

A Thompson submachine gun.

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Tommy gun

(Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) an informal name for Thompson sub-machine-gun

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Tom′my gun`

1. Thompson submachine gun.

2. any submachine gun.

[1920–25; by shortening]

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Tommy gun - a .45-caliber submachine gun

Thompson submachine gun

submachine gun - machine gun that is a portable automatic firearm

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mitra

tommy gun

[ˈtɒmɪˌgʌn] n (fam) → fucile m mitragliatore

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Grabbing his (aptly named) Tommy gun, he marched out into the pasture to investigate, only to discover on arriving that he'd blindly walked through, and now had to negotiate his way back out of, a bumper harvest of crudely buried landmines.

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Grabbing his (aptly named) Tommy gun, he marched out into the pasture to investigate - only to discover upon arriving that he'd blindly walked through - and now had to negotiate his way back out of - a bumper harvest of crudely buried landmines.

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