TOMMY GUN


Meaning of TOMMY GUN in English

noun

a type of sub-machine gun

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WORD ORIGIN

1920s: contraction of Thompson gun , named by its designer after John T. Thompson (1860–1940), the American army officer who conceived the idea for it.

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