machine pistol

 

Calque of German Maschinenpistole.

machine pistol (plural machine pistols)

1. A lightweight submachine gun, usually capable of being fired with one hand (but sometimes with a second grip at the front of the barrel and then fired like a rifle).

• MP (abbreviation)

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