SUBMACHINE GUN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Machine gun that is a portable automatic firearm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("submachine gun" is a kind of...):

machine gun (a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "submachine gun"):

Bren; Bren gun (a submachine gun operated by gas pressure; used by the British in World War II)

burp gun; machine pistol (a fully automatic pistol; a small submachine gun)

Kalashnikov (a type of submachine gun made in Russia)

light machine gun (a submachine gun not greater than .30 millimeter)

Sten gun (a lightweight British submachine gun)

Thompson submachine gun; Tommy gun (a .45-caliber submachine gun)

Uzi (a type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel)