The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word AUTOMATIC which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1977.
Kind of rifle or pistol crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| AUTOMATIC | 100 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Kind of rifle or pistol
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- mauser
- gun
- firearm
- carbine
- cap
- .22
- twenty-two
- p. p. von mauser
- peter paul mauser
- von mauser
- derringer
- chassepot
Crossword Answer definitions
AUTOMATIC noun- A car with automatic transmission.
- A semi-automatic pistol.
- Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
- Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
- Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
- (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
- (of a handgun) An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.
- (of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
- (of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata
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