machine gunner
IPA: mʌʃˈingˈʌnɝ
noun
- Alternative spelling of machine-gunner [(military) Someone who uses a machine gun.]
machine-gunner
IPA: mʌʃˈingˈʌnɝ
noun
- (military) Someone who uses a machine gun.
Examples of "machine-gunner" in Sentences
- The machine-gunner finished setting up his weapon and let loose a fusillade of bullets.
- Krueger fired again, winging the machine-gunner and causing the man to drop his weapon with a curse.
- Groton arrived in Vietnam as an enlisted Marine Corps machine-gunner in 1965, he was captured in an ambush and held in
- But when she arrived in Iraq she discovered what they didn't tell her: that she would be the machine-gunner for the unit.
- Krueger scanned the treeline, letting the crosshairs drift over riflemen and pistoleers, searching for the machine-gunner.
- The dead machine-gunner had also been wearing a watch—a nice, rubberized number with a built-in calendar and a quality wriststrap.
- While working as a teenager at a textile factory she saw the civil war movie Chapayev, about a famous woman machine-gunner named ‘Anka’.
- As Korean War machine-gunner Robert Haas puts it, "If a pregnant women catches a slug in the gut, what's the statistic: one dead soldier or two?"
- Krueger, a little winded from throwing the heavy body and toting the weapons back and forth, huffed and puffed his way up the rise to where the corpse of the machine-gunner lay.
- Each member had a German Heckler and Koch submachine gun slung across his back and a pistol strapped to his side, but they would be no match for one Iraqi machine-gunner on the beach.