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View definitions for Tommy gun

Tommy gun

noun as in machine gun

noun as in submachine gun

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Example Sentences

Why should I worry about a man with a tommy gun 2,000 miles away?

I pulled around the corner onto Harper street, and into the path of a tommy gun's fire.

His fingers gripped the stock of the tommy-gun so tightly the knuckles showed white.

For want of something better to do, he took down a tommy gun from a rack near Segador's seat and examined it for dust and grease.

He could distinguish the heavy thud of the Tommy-gun, the sharper crack of the carbine, but other weapons were also firing.

Before the boys piled in, Stan handed his tommy-gun to Allison.

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

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