machine gunner
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- noun
- /məˈʃin ˈɡʌnər/
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- As a trained machine gunner, she was responsible for providing suppressive fire during combat operations.
- German machine gunners
- Army machine gunners
- machine gunner opened fire
We're all infantrymen, machine Gunners, riflemen, mortarmen.
- We're all infantrymen, machine Gunners, riflemen, mortarmen.
- And but none of us wanted to be a machine gunner or an anti tank gunner.
- So my my grandfather on the on the other side, he was a machine gunner that was in Ukraine.
- And that was like the first, the very first one of my guys who was, who was our probably our most senior machine gunner.
- My grandfather spilled his blood on this land, held the line as a machine gunner against the Nazi invasion, surviving impossible odds.
Examples
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Jack was a machine gunner on helicopters for a long time.
Fiction book (1993) -
I was a machine gunner with the 7th Infantry Division on Okinawa.
Blog text (11) -
Take out the machine gunner!
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A stupid German machine-gunner shot me from his tank.
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We can take the machine gunners on the roof from here.
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Machine gunners, stand by to give us covering fire!
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The machine gunner looks up at the U.S. Army insignia and waves.
Fiction book (1995) -
I was with the Marines as a mortar man and machine gunner from 1967 to 1970.
Blog text (27) -
ROAR overhead, their machine gunners searching for guerrilla activity.
Fiction book (1995) -
Bobby McGregor ran for the helicopter door and ducked as the chopper's machine gunner opened up at a sniper in a building across the street.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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6.1
A person who aims and fires weapons, often in the military or in contests
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a member of the armed forces trained to operate a machine gun' is directly and transparently derived from 'machine' (a powered device) modifying 'gunner' (a person who operates a gun); the compound denotes an agent who operates a specific kind of gun. This noun+agent pattern is a regular, cross-linguistic compositional structure, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun machine gunner comes from the compound machine gun, a heavy weapon that fires many bullets quickly, and the ending -er meaning 'one who'. So, a machine gunner is 'a soldier who uses a machine gun'.