Machine-gun

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To fire a machine gun.
  2. 2
    To shoot (people, etc.) with a machine gun.

    "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."

  3. 3
    To shoot (something) out of or as if out of a machine gun.

    "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."

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"Tom is shooting with a machine-gun."

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