Usually means: Automatic firearm, rapid continuous shooting.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word machine-gun:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. machine-gun: Merriam-Webster
  2. machine-gun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Machine-Gun, Machine-gun, machine-gun: Wordnik
  4. machine-gun: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. machine-gun: Wiktionary
  6. machine-gun: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. machine-gun: Dictionary.com
  8. Machine-gun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. machine-gun: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. machine-gun: FreeDictionary.org
  11. machine-gun: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. machine-gun: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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