machine pistol
English
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a machine pistol
Etymology
Calque of German Maschinenpistole.
Noun
machine pistol (plural machine pistols)
- 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).
Further reading
machine pistol on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Machine pistols on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons