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Definition of Tommy gun
1. Noun. A .45-caliber submachine gun.
Definition of Tommy gun
1. Noun. a Thompson submachine gun ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tommy Gun
Literary usage of Tommy gun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Parties, Personalities, and Programs by Michael McFaul, Sergei Markov (1993)
"And every time you entered you had to pass personnel control so that you could
not bring inside a tommy gun, a light machine gun, or anything else of the ..."
2. Negotiating While Fighting: The Diary of Admiral C. Turner Joy at the Korean by Charles Turner Joy, Allan E. Goodman (1978)
"When our jeep attempted to proceed up driveway our way was blocked by a soldier
with a tommy gun who motioned us along grass road. ..."
3. The American Pageant Revisited: Recollections of a Stanford Historian by Thomas A. Bailey (1982)
"... of 1855 — the first transcontinental railway—visited Panama City again, and
noted that a soldier with a tommy gun was posted in our hotel dining room. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Another little trick was the use of a 'tommy gun' on a car approaching. When the
other bus came within a hundred meters of us we opened fire. ..."
5. The Marshall Plan Summer: An Eyewitness Report on Europe and the Russians in by Thomas Andrew Bailey (1977)
"One soldier, with a tommy- gun strapped on, casually boarded an electric streetcar
in front of the Bristol Hotel. A number of Russian officers, ..."
6. 1967! by Ann Owen, Lawrence A. Murray (1994)
"Today's AK47 is like yesterday's Tommy-gun and just as accurate. Popularly told,
the number of guns in the US in 1994 is 215 million [with the number of ..."
7. Western Canada by Paul-Eric Dumontier, Jennifer McMorran, Pierre Longnus (2004)
"You'd better bring along your Tommy gun for the second tour, "The Chicago Connection."
The tunnels were later used as hideouts of a different kind, ..."
8. Canada 2002 by Wayne C. Thompson (2003)
"You'd better bring along your Tommy gun for the second tour, "The Chicago Connection."
The tunnels were later used as hideouts of a different kind, ..."
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