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Machine pistol

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A lightweight submachine gun, usually capable of being fired with one hand (but sometimes with a second grip at the front of the barrel and then fired like a rifle).
  2. 2
    a fully automatic pistol; a small submachine gun wordnet

Etymology

Calque of German Maschinenpistole.

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