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au'tomat'ic pis'tol




a type of pistol having a mechanism that throws out the empty shell, puts in a new one, and prepares the pistol to be fired again. Also called automatic.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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