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English
Etymology
From machine + gun.
Noun
machinegun (plural machineguns)
- Alternative spelling of machine gun.
1978 April 22, “Book Shipment from New York Seized by Customs”, in Gay Community News, page 3:The raids by machinegun toting police people on Gay bars in Montreal
Verb
machinegun (third-person singular simple present machineguns, present participle machinegunning, simple past and past participle machinegunned)
- Alternative spelling of machine-gun.
1981 November, B.P., “U.S. Embassy”, in Soldier of Fortune, volume 6, number 11, page 53:However, one group of Americans at the Embassy doesn’t creep around quivering in anxiety about being RPGed or machinegunned.
2009 May 22, Stuart Heritage, “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”, in Hecklerspray:Jon & Kate Plus 8. Not the name of a horrific-sounding midget-porn movie. It’s the reality show that everyone is talking about.
Alright, not everyone. We haven’t been talking about Jon & Kate Plus 8. But that’s because we’ve only figured out what it is. It’s a show about a couple plagued by the fact that the woman keeps machinegunning babies out of her vagina and one of them hit the milkman in the eye. Or something.