Talk:typewriter

RFV discussion: December 2020
Rfv-sense: "A machine gun (from the noise it makes when firing)." There's an undated quote from Fredric Brown there, but I couldn't find anything else La más guay (talk) 22:39, 9 December 2020 (UTC)


 * cited Kiwima (talk) 00:58, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Not cited. 1946 and 2012 are specifically uses of, rather than an unmodified . Incidentally, the full term refers to a specific kind of machine gun, so I wonder if the definition is too general. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 00:10, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I've added the two Chicago typewriter cites to [[Chicago typewriter]]. DCDuring (talk) 00:52, 11 December 2020 (UTC)


 * As far as I can tell (and it is very tricky searching for this because of all the false positives) refers in general to a machine gun or submachine gun, while a  is a Tommy gun, a specific type of "typewriter". *sigh*, I will go back and try to find a third quote that is not specifically the Chicago typewriter. Kiwima (talk) 00:56, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok, this is now cited without recourse to the . Kiwima (talk) 01:06, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 19:57, 18 December 2020 (UTC)