[Ads-l] chatter-gun

[Jonathan Lighter]

'Machine gun or submachine gun.' Not in OED.

1935 _Seattle Post-Intelligencer_ (Sept. 20) 4 [GenealogyBank]: Player
Learns to Use 'Chatter Gun'   Barton MacLane...in the ...picture "G
Men"...became a machine gun marksman in a single day.

1937 _Ruston [La.] Daily Reader_ (July 8) 1 [Newspapers.com]: Every now and
then they will let the chatter gun get out of control.

1938 _Dayton Herald_ (Aug. 8) [10] [Newspapes.com] : These machine
gunners...aim their chatter gun from a
cane-break [sic].

1939 _Soldiers of the Sea_ (USMC promo film) [
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rerKUtHqt8] A hatful of chatter-gun slugs.

1941 _United States Army Recruiting News_ (Feb.) 17 [Google Books]: A
chatter gun score of 190.

Etc.

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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