machine-gun

See also: machinegun and machine gun

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machine-gun (third-person singular simple present machine-guns, present participle machine-gunning, simple past and past participle machine-gunned)

  1. To fire a machine gun
  2. To shoot (people, etc.) with a machine gun
    • 1980 December 6, “Thank You”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 4:
      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. To shoot (something) out of or as if out of a machine gun.
    • 1991 February 4, Owen Shows, “Start Making Sense”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 16:
      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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