submachine gun

See also: submachinegun

English

Etymology

From sub- + machine gun.

Pronunciation

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Noun

submachine gun (plural submachine guns)

2. A type of short range machine gun that is carried as a personal weapon and uses pistol ammunition.

   Alternative forms: SMG (initialism); submachinegun

   Synonyms: machine pistol, trench broom, chopper

   Hypernyms: MG, machine gun < firearm < gun < weapon

   Hyponyms: Chicago typewriter, Tommy gun, Thompson submachine gun

   Coordinate terms: (other types of machine gun) LMG, light machine gun, MMG, medium machine gun, HMG, heavy machine gun, GPMG, general-purpose machine gun; (other automatic firearms) assault rifle, automatic rifle

   • 2007 March 9, Jim Rutenberg, Larry Rohter, “Bush’s South America Tour Incites Fight for Attention”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Bare-chested children and their parents gathered in doorways, on roofs and in windows as he passed, watched warily by Brazilian troops carrying submachine guns.

Translations

short range machine gun

• Arabic: بندقية رشاشة, المسدس الرشاش
• Armenian: ատրճանակ-գնդացիր (atrčanak-gndacʻir), ԱԳ (hy) (AG), գնդացիր-արտճանակ (gndacʻir-artčanak), ԳԱ (hy) (GA)
• Azerbaijani: pulemyot tapança, pulemyot-tapança
• Belarusian: пісталет-кулямёт (pistaljet-kuljamjót)
• Bulgarian: автомат (bg) m (avtomat), шмайзер m (šmajzer)
• Catalan: subfusell
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衝鋒槍 / 冲锋枪 (zh) (chōngfēngqiāng)

• Czech: samopal (cs) m
• Danish: maskinpistol (da)
• Dutch: machinepistool (nl), pistoolmitrailleur (nl)
• Esperanto: mitraleto
• Estonian: püstolkuulipilduja
• Finnish: konepistooli (fi)
• French: mitraillette (fr) f, pistolet mitrailleur (fr) m, PM (fr) m
• German: Maschinenpistole (de) f
• Greek: υποπολυβόλο (el) n (ypopolyvólo)
• Hebrew: תת־מקלע
• Icelandic: hríðskotabyssa (is) f
• Irish: fo-mheaisínghunna m
• Italian: mitra (it)
• Japanese: 短機関銃 (ja) (たんきかんじゅう, tankikanjū), サブマシンガン (sabumashingan)
• Kazakh: тапанша-пулемет (tapanša-puwlemet)
• Korean: 기관단총 (ko) (gigwandanchong)
• Latvian: mašīnpistole f
• Macedonian: автомат (avtomat)
• Manx: fo-vasheengunn m
• Persian: مسلسل دستی
• Polish: pistolet maszynowy (pl) m, peem m, automat (pl) m, rozpylacz m
• Portuguese: submetralhadora f
• Russian: автома́т (ru) m (avtomát), пистоле́т-пулемёт (ru) m (pistolét-pulemjót), ПП (ru) (PP)
• Serbo-Croatian: аутомат, машинка
• Slovak: samopal (sk) m
• Spanish: pistola ametralladora f, metralleta (es) f, subfusil m
• Swedish: kulsprutepistol (sv) c, kpist (sv) c
• Thai: ปืนกลมือ (bpʉʉn-gon-mʉʉ)
• Turkish: makineli tabanca (tr)
• Ukrainian: пістолет-кулемет (pistolet-kulemet), ПК (uk) (PK)
• Uzbek: pistolet-pulemyot