machine pistol

English

a machine pistol

Etymology

Calque of German Maschinenpistole.

Noun

machine pistol (plural machine pistols)

1. A lightweight submachine gun, usually capable of being fired with one hand (but sometimes with a second grip at the front of the barrel and then fired like a rifle).

Synonyms

• MP (abbreviation)

Translations

lightweight submachine gun

• Finnish: automaattipistooli
• German: Maschinenpistole (de) f
• Portuguese: pistola automática f

Further reading

• machine pistol on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Machine pistols on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons