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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Browning automatic rifle
 
NOUN:abbr. BAR A .30-caliber air-cooled, automatic or semiautomatic, gas-operated, magazine-fed rifle used by U.S. troops in World Wars I and II and the Korean War.
ETYMOLOGY:After John Moses Browning.
 
 
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