machine-gun
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To fire a machine gun.
verb
To shoot (people, etc.) with a machine gun.
verb
To shoot (something) out of or as if out of a machine gun.
Example Sentences
- "During a time when the New Right is becoming increasingly powerful, when gay people are machine-gunned down in the streets, lesbians and gay men are recognizing the necessity of helping each other out."
- "The opportunity for examining this historical phenomenon was lost on the producers of Making Sense of the Sixties, as images of rock festivals and tragedies were machine-gunned at the viewer, presumably to recreate a sense of the general confusion (as opposed to the cultural excitement) of the period."