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Thompson submachine gun

noun as in submachine gun

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Example Sentences

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

It found that the product's bottle, which is shaped like a Thompson submachine gun - commonly known as a Tommy gun - created "a direct link between the drink and a dangerous weapon".

From BBC

Other historical targets of regulation have included long-bladed Bowie knives and the Thompson submachine gun, or Tommy gun, popular with gangsters in the years after World War I.

He had learned to shoot a Thompson submachine gun and interrogate Nazis.

Mangrum, Sam said, was reputed to have surreptitiously executed a group of German POWs with his Thompson submachine gun.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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