First Known Use: 1929
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tommy gun
noun
Definition of TOMMY GUN
: thompson submachine gun; broadly : submachine gun
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Origin of TOMMY GUN
by shortening & alteration
Rhymes with TOMMY GUN
Acheron, Algonquin, allemande, all-or-none, Balzacian, give the gun, hit-and-run, jump the gun, machine-gun, machine gun, megaton, midnight sun, one-on-one, one-to-one, on the run, overrun, pellet gun, radar gun, ride shotgun, riot gun, run-and-gun, Sally Lunn, scattergun, smoking gun, twenty-one, underdone, underrun, water gun
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