Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various compact submachine guns having a caliber of 9 millimeters, originally designed in Israel in the 1950s.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Uzi, el-Gal, 20th-century Israeli army officer and weapons designer.]

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Examples

  • “The Uzi is a good weapon,” Antonio said, looking at Father Juan.

    Crusade Nancy Holder 2010

  • You even have the original Uzi in the book -- the man called Uzi that all Uzis are named after.

    Dangerous Liaisons 1991

  • That's right although he praised the SCOTUS for overturning the DC hand gun ban, the NRA is making a big deal about Obama voting for a ban on guns such as Uzi's and AK's.

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

  • One writer says that as the 'Uzi' they were found on the banks of the Danube at the end of the eleventh century; others say they entered Moldo-Wallachia about

    Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson

  • Each of the PPS's twenty-seven levels is patrolled by no-nonsense armed guards, former officers in the Russian Secret Service, each of whom carries an Uzi, mace, flares, handcuffs, a stun gun, and is accompanied by a trained attack dog that has not been fed for at least twelve hours.

    Mark C. Miller: Your Introduction to the World's Most State-of-the-Art Parking Structure Mark C. Miller 2010

  • Kherchtou trained on a variety of automatic rifles, including the AK-47, M-16, and Uzi.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • Cabinet member Uzi Landau of the Yisrael Beitenu party: Only those who have a problem with the very existence of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state might have a problem there.

    Proposed Loyalty Oath Stirs Anger of Israeli-Arab Minority 2010

  • At 11. 20am, masked police cradling Uzi-style machine guns burst into the HQ of Russia's National Reserve Bank.

    Alexander Lebedev's office raided by masked police Luke Harding 2010

  • Cabinet member Uzi Landau of the Yisrael Beitenu party: Only those who have a problem with the very existence of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state might have a problem there.

    Proposed Loyalty Oath Stirs Anger of Israeli-Arab Minority 2010

  • Each of the PPS's twenty-seven levels is patrolled by no-nonsense armed guards, former officers in the Russian Secret Service, each of whom carries an Uzi, mace, flares, handcuffs, a stun gun, and is accompanied by a trained attack dog that has not been fed for at least twelve hours.

    Mark C. Miller: Your Introduction to the World's Most State-of-the-Art Parking Structure Mark C. Miller 2010

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