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Literally, it would mean being shot with a machine gun: The soldier machine-gunned the enemy.

Figuratively, it can relate to things making the same sound as a machine gun (a woodpecker machine gunned in the distance), or things coming at you too rapidly to deal with them individually: they machine-gunned suggestions at her.

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