The Collaborative International Dictionary
machine gunner \machine gunner\ n. A soldier who operates a machine gun.
WordNet
n. a serviceman in the artillery [syn: artilleryman, cannoneer, gunner]
Usage examples of "machine gunner".
As his bullets began to splatter against the concrete around the aperture of the bunker, the German machine gunner brought his weapon to bear on Pape and returned fire, throwing clods of mud kicked up by near misses back into Pape's face.
The sub-machine gunner jumped as though prodded with a shock baton.
Krueger was the team's second machine gunner, a blond giant who carried the bulky M-60 slung over his shoulders, and wore crossed ammo belts which gave him the air of a muscle-bound hero of some paramilitary movie epic.
The machine gunner ahead of them made a final adjustment to her weapon by thumping it with the heel of her hand, then stroked the bright brass belt of ammunition running down to the tin box on the right of the weapon.
The standing machine gunner swiveled the M-60 at Lyons, then the man flew backward into the chain link fence, a gaping hole where a one-ounce slug had blown away his heart.