semiautomatic

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“
Four of the five rounds in the revolver had been fired, and the semiautomatic was fully loaded, they said.

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  1. adjective Partially automatic.
  2. adjective Ejecting a shell and loading the next round of ammunition automatically, but requiring a squeeze of the trigger for each shot. Used of a firearm.
  3. noun A semiautomatic firearm. Also called self-loader.

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  • And it had been much more reasonable than a semiautomatic, if you can call $400 reasonable. —  One For The Money
  • When I asked him about it at the coffee shop, he claimed not to know whether it was a revolver or a semiautomatic, yet it had to be carefully loaded with blanks, and he had just fired it last Christmas at Volti on a nightly basis, which he also conveniently forgot. —  AHMM,January-February2008
  • “Carrying a forty-caliber semiautomatic,” Suit said. —  Stranger in Paradise
  • Then she gets angry with herself when it won't function like a semiautomatic. —  Time Scout
  • An infuriated Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday slammed former GOP governor Mitt Romney for boasting about his National Rifle Association membership and 'Äúbragging'Äù about shooting varmints with a semiautomatic, even as his former capital city is besieged by gun violence. —  Hub Politics
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