Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tommy-gun.
Examples
-
Revolutionized American Cinema in 1967 with Bonnie and Clyde, in which he proved that the Penn is mightier than the tommy-gun.
Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses Tallulah Morehead 2011
-
It holds six 40mm shells in a tommy-gun—style drum magazine.
Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011
-
Revolutionized American Cinema in 1967 with Bonnie and Clyde, in which he proved that the Penn is mightier than the tommy-gun.
Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses Tallulah Morehead 2011
-
It holds six 40mm shells in a tommy-gun—style drum magazine.
Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011
-
Three dirty rats, of the tommy-gun wielding variety are desperate and hatch a scheme to get their hands on some bullion.
Archive 2007-03-01 Blue Tyson 2007
-
Admittedly, I don't circulate as much as Mickey Kaus, who I gather is moonlighting as the Jerry Zipkin for fright-night bachelorettes, but you would think that by now I would have come across some of those Angry Bloggers I keep reading about, those tommy-gun typists who have escaped captivity and eschew the finer points of etiquette, not to mention spelling and punctuation.
Hard Fascism, Soft Heads: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
-
I had a tommy-gun with a disc magazine, 50 bullets and proper boots.
-
Bad Boys, Armageddon , and the historically hyperbolic Pearl Harbor — these movies, with their tommy-gun jump cuts, their nitric, breezily nihilistic momentum, their catchphrase-grunting action heroes, and their napalm denouements, comprise a subgenre known simply as "Michael Bay."
The Rebirth of Optimus Prime: Behind the Scenes with Director Michael Bay 2007
-
The thematically appropriate Itchy and Scratchy episode concludes with a mass tommy-gun execution of "usual suspects" in a police line-up.
Lunch Discussions #781: "... and the Aliens' Version Was Funnier." Rogers 2007
-
Port-au-Prince supposedly thus secured, the invasion began in the northern city of Cap Haitien, where a Cessna landed with men opening tommy-gun fire at the unmanned control tower.
1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.