"grease gun" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-grease gun.wav Forms: grease guns [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} grease gun (plural grease guns)
  1. A levered device for forcing grease into machinery. Categories (topical): Tools Translations (device for forcing grease into machinery): maznice [feminine] (Czech), fedtpistol [common-gender] (Danish), rasvaprässi (Finnish), pompe à graisse [feminine] (French), gunney smarrey [masculine] (Manx)
    Sense id: en-grease_gun-en-noun-6yPeF5dv Disambiguation of Tools: 76 24 Disambiguation of 'device for forcing grease into machinery': 96 4
  2. (colloquial, due to its appearance) A small machine gun, particularly the .45 calibre M3 used by the US in WW2. Tags: colloquial Categories (topical): Firearms
    Sense id: en-grease_gun-en-noun-yWzvwqX3 Disambiguation of Firearms: 21 79 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Manx translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 86 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 85 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 94 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 7 93 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 13 87 Disambiguation of Terms with Manx translations: 14 86

Inflected forms

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