"grease gun" meaning in English

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Noun

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: 69 31 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: 24 76 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 93 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 5 95 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 6 94

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for grease gun meaning in English (2.7kB)

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