arma de fuego

Definitions of arma de fuego
  1. noun
    a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
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    antiaéreo, cañón antiaéreo
    artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
    pistola
    a portable gun
    pistola
    a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
    fusil, rifle
    a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
    escopeta
    firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges
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    arma
    any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
  2. noun
    a portable gun
    synonyms: pistola
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    pistola
    a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
    fusil, rifle
    a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
    escopeta
    firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges
    arcabuz
    an obsolete firearm with a long barrel
    carabina
    light automatic rifle
    mosquete
    a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
    revólver
    a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)
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