machine-gun

verb machine-guns · machine-gunning · machine-gunned

1. To fire a machine gun.
2. To shoot (people, etc.) with a machine gun. During a time when the New Right is becoming increasingly powerful, when gay people are machine-gunned down in the streets, lesbians and gay men are recognizing the necessity of helping each other out.
3. To shoot (something) out of or as if out of a machine gun. The opportunity for examining this historical phenomenon was lost on the producers of Making Sense of the Sixties, as images of rock festivals and tragedies were machine-gunned at the viewer, presumably to recreate a sense of the general confusion (as opposed to the cultural excitement) of the perio