Usually means: Automatic firearm, compact, intermediate cartridge.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word submachine gun:

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  1. submachine gun: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. submachine gun: Merriam-Webster
  3. submachine gun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. submachine gun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. submachine gun: Vocabulary.com
  6. submachine-gun: Wordnik
  7. submachine gun: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. submachine gun: Wiktionary
  9. submachine gun: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. submachine gun: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. submachine gun: Dictionary.com
  12. Submachine Gun, Submachine gun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. submachine gun: Rhymezone
  14. submachine-gun: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. submachine gun: FreeDictionary.org
  16. submachine gun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. submachine gun: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Submachine-gun, submachine gun: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. submachine gun: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (submachine gun)

▸ noun:  A type of short range machine gun that is carried as a personal weapon and uses pistol ammunition.

Similar:
submachinegun, machine pistol, personal defense weapon, light machine gun, pocket pistol, Thompson submachine gun, personal defence weapon, automatic, mouse gun, small arm, more...

Opposite:
rifle, shotgun, handgun, revolver, sniper rifle

Types:
Heckler & Koch MP5, Uzi, FN P90, Heckler & Koch MP7, CZ Scorpion Evo 3, B, more...

Phrases:
Thompson submachine gun, M3 submachine gun, Sterling submachine gun, PPS submachine gun, Type 100 submachine gun, more...

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Similar:
submachinegun, machine pistol, personal defense weapon, light machine gun, pocket pistol, Thompson submachine gun, personal defence weapon, automatic, mouse gun, small arm, more...

Opposite:
rifle, shotgun, handgun, revolver, sniper rifle

Types:
Heckler & Koch MP5, Uzi, FN P90, Heckler & Koch MP7, CZ Scorpion Evo 3, B, more...

Phrases:
Thompson submachine gun, M3 submachine gun, Sterling submachine gun, PPS submachine gun, Type 100 submachine gun, Lanchester submachine gun, Type 79 submachine gun, Villar Perosa aircraft submachine gun, more...



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