英语词汇tommygun的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

tommygun. The infamous chopper so often hidden in violin cases in gangster movies, takes its name from the patronym of one of its inventors, American army officer John T. Thompson (1860–1940). Thompson and Navy Comm. John N. Blish in- vented the .45 caliber portable automatic weapon during World War I and much improved it in later years. Gangsters and re- porters popularized the nickname tommygun in the Prohibi- tion era along with colorful expressions like torpedo, trigger- man, bathtub gin, hideout, hijacker, to muscle in, and to take for a ride. Although tommygun originally identified the Thompson machine gun, with its pistol grip and shoulder stock, the term is now used to describe any similar lightweight weapon with a drum-type magazine. See uzi.

词汇	tommygun
词源	tommygun. The infamous chopper so often hidden in violin cases in gangster movies, takes its name from the patronym of one of its inventors, American army officer John T. Thompson (1860–1940). Thompson and Navy Comm. John N. Blish in- vented the .45 caliber portable automatic weapon during World War I and much improved it in later years. Gangsters and re- porters popularized the nickname tommygun in the Prohibi- tion era along with colorful expressions like torpedo, trigger- man, bathtub gin, hideout, hijacker, to muscle in, and to take for a ride. Although tommygun originally identified the Thompson machine gun, with its pistol grip and shoulder stock, the term is now used to describe any similar lightweight weapon with a drum-type magazine. See uzi.
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