machine gunとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /məˈʃiːn ɡʌn/

名詞

machine gun (plural machine guns)

1. A type of fully automatic firearm that fires bullets in rapid succession by a single action of the trigger and is capable of sustained fire.

   Alternative form: MG (initialism)

   Hypernyms: firearm < gun < weapon

   Hyponyms: HMG, heavy machine gun, MMG, medium machine gun, GPMG, general-purpose machine gun, LMG, light machine gun, SMG, submachine gun

   • 1974, “I'm Gonna Get You”, performed by Eleanore Mills:

     I'm gonna get you, baby / Like a machine gun, I'm gonna… Tak-Tak-Tak-Tak-Tak

   • 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist‎, volume 408, number 8845:

     Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

   • 2016 December 23, Lam Yik Fei, “World - Image”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 April 2023‎:

     Brigadier John K. Lawson's bunker on the west side of Wong Nai Chung Gap that the West Brigade used as headquarters. Brigadier Lawson and three of his men were hit by machine-gun fire escaping from the bunker on Dec. 19, 1941.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Japanese: マシンガン
• → Malay: mesingan
• → Maori: pū mīhini (calque)
• → Tagalog: masinggan

参考

• chain gun

動詞

machine-gun (third-person singular simple present machine-guns, present participle machine-gunning, simple past and past participle machine-gunned)

1. To fire a machine gun
2. To shoot (people, etc.) with a machine gun
   • 1980 December 6, “Thank You”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 4:

     During a time when the New Right is becoming increasingly powerful, when gay people are machine-gunned down in the streets, lesbians and gay men are recognizing the necessity of helping each other out.

3. To shoot (something) out of or as if out of a machine gun.
   • 1991 February 4, Owen Shows, “Start Making Sense”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 16:

     The opportunity for examining this historical phenomenon was lost on the producers of Making Sense of the Sixties, as images of rock festivals and tragedies were machine-gunned at the viewer, presumably to recreate a sense of the general confusion (as opposed to the cultural excitement) of the period.