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submachine gun

[suhb-muh-sheen guhn] / ˌsʌb məˈʃin ˌgʌn /


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Thompson, who takes his stage name from his wartime submachine gun, rose to fame during the bloody conflicts that tore Yugoslavia apart in the 1990s.

From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025

He fought in three of its five major battles, as well as in many lesser engagements, armed with a Thompson submachine gun.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

It features a solemn colonnade along with a column atop which a Soviet soldier stands cradling a submachine gun — a structure known to generations of Viennese as the “Monument to the Unknown Looter.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023

In a recent seminar at Rutgers, he referred to the disease as “MPX,” an alternative he called “absolutely not ideal” after learning that MPX was the name for a type of submachine gun.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2022

It has a shoulder stock and handgrips and a trigger like a submachine gun.

From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam