Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

machine gun

/məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English

Syllables: ma-chine -gun
IPA: /məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of fully automatic firearm that fires bullets in rapid succession by a single action of the trigger and is capable of sustained fire.

Example Sentences

"I'm gonna get you, baby / Like a machine gun, I'm gonna… Tak-Tak-Tak-Tak-Tak"
"Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless."
"Brigadier John K. Lawson's bunker on the west side of Wong Nai Chung Gap that the West Brigade used as headquarters. Brigadier Lawson and three of his men were hit by machine-gun fire escaping from the bunker on Dec. 19, 1941."

Inflected Forms

machine guns (plural)

Phrases

heavy machine gun light machine gun medium machine gun submachine gun machine carbine machine pistol machine rifle chain gun

Frequently Paired Words

machine carbine machine pistol machine rifle chain gun MG

Questions

How do you pronounce machine gun?: The recorded pronunciation is /məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/.
What does machine gun mean?: A type of fully automatic firearm that fires bullets in rapid succession by a single action of the trigger and is capable of sustained fire.

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