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English
Pronunciation
Verb
machine-gun (third-person singular simple present machine-guns, present participle machine-gunning, simple past and past participle machine-gunned)
- To fire a machine gun
- 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.
- 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.
Translations
to shoot with a machine gun