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  • proper noun The Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War I.

Etymologies

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After the inventor Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916).

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Examples

  • Know them by their fruits is a great maxim and another good one is Frodo's Maxim, in Lord of the Rings, as he says:

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • As General Kitchener was marching across the desert in 1897, Rudyard Kipling had already commandeered the word Maxim.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • On a motion in March by Albert Vickers, one of Maxim’s earliest supporters, the firm would quickly strike the word Maxim from the company name and its correspondence, becoming Vickers, Ltd.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • So we called Maxim, known for its lad-mag raunch-- a source there told us they too produce just one cover, which goes out to newsstands, subscribers, and advertisers alike.

    Cosmopolitan Deletes Sexy Headlines For Its Advertisers Hilary Moss 2011

  • I believe that diagram first appeared in Maxim magazine.

    LOL: The Denzel Washington Venn Diagram | /Film 2010

  • So we called Maxim, known for its lad-mag raunch-- a source there told us they too produce just one cover, which goes out to newsstands, subscribers, and advertisers alike.

    Cosmopolitan Deletes Sexy Headlines For Its Advertisers Hilary Moss 2011

  • Whereas a young Palestinian woman killed herself in Maxim, a restaurant in Haifa (where we often eat), and killed 30 people all at once, injured dozens of others, and wiped out entire families.

    The Passion Play of Death by Todd Hasak-Lowy 2010

  • So we called Maxim, known for its lad-mag raunch-- a source there told us they too produce just one cover, which goes out to newsstands, subscribers, and advertisers alike.

    Cosmopolitan Deletes Sexy Headlines For Its Advertisers Hilary Moss 2011

  • So we called Maxim, known for its lad-mag raunch-- a source there told us they too produce just one cover, which goes out to newsstands, subscribers, and advertisers alike.

    Cosmopolitan Deletes Sexy Headlines For Its Advertisers Hilary Moss 2011

  • Hecht tapped-in Maxim Afinogenov's pass from down low to give Buffalo a 1-0 lead.

    USATODAY.com 2008

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