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submachine gun

/suhb-muh-sheen-guhn/US // ˌsʌb məˈʃin ˌgʌn //

冲锋枪,子母枪,突击队,潜伏枪

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip. Abbreviation: SMG

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Examples

  • As the five officers told it, Franklin overpowered three of them and gained control of a police submachine gun, wounding the two cops.

  • Peterson said Franklin now “had control of” both Durand and the submachine gun.

  • By the time Ronald Reagan officially launched the War on Drugs in 1984, gang members carried Uzis, MAC-10 submachine guns, and semiautomatic rifles to enforce contracts in the underground economy.

  • “You can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.

  • That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.

  • I mean, the reality of it was, I had to go out and get on a horse, and ride in, shoot the gun — how hard was that, right?

  • They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.

  • Frias—who was arrested in 2013 for interfering with public duties and public intoxication—was not carrying a gun at the time.

  • This was no strange sight to the boy by that time, but it was awkward in the circumstances, for he had neither gun nor spear.

  • He turned at the sound of my voice with vastly more concern than he'd betrayed under the muzzle of Piegan's gun.

  • He was a good judge of men, that eagle-faced major; he knew that the slightest move with hostile intent would mean a smoking gun.

  • Here Robinson suddenly turned pale, and, hastily reaching out for his gun, sprang to his feet.

  • I begged him to come down here, but he wouldn't—says that his hand is no longer steady enough to hold a gun—it's awful!