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armsnoun1pl. of arm a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowdersoldiers grabbing their arms and helmets and heading into battle firearms, guns, heat(slang), pieces, small arms derringers, forty-fives(or .45s), gats(slang), handguns, pistols, revolvers, rods(slang), roscoes(slang), sidearms, six-guns, six-shooters, zip gunsself-loaders, semiautomaticsblunderbusses, breechloaders, culverins, fieldpieces, firelocks, flintlocks, harquebuses(or arquebuses), matchlocks, muskets, rifles, shotguns, smoothbores, twenty-twos(or .22s)AK-47s, assault rifles, assault weapons, automatics, carbines, machine guns, machine pistols, repeaters, submachine guns, tommy gunsspearguns armsnoun2pl. of arma large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organizationa company that needs to beef up its marketing arm if it wants to compete in today's business world a part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shorelinethis arm of the Atlantic is surprisingly peaceful, as the stronger ocean currents do not reach this far bays, bights, coves, creeks(chiefly British), embayments, estuaries, firths, fjords(also fiords), gulfs, inlets, lochs(Scottish) harbors, ports, roads, roadsteadsnarrows, sounds, straitsbayousbackwaters, sloughs(also slews or slues) an area of land that juts out into a body of waterMaine has so many long, narrow arms that jut out into the ocean that early coastal settlers found it much easier to travel by sea the right or means to command or control othersfew criminals manage to permanently escape the long arm of the law authorities, clutches, commands, controls, death grips, dominions, grips, holds, masteries, powers, reigns, reins, sways clouts, influences, leverages, pulls, voices, weightsjurisdictionsdirections, managementsdominances, imperiums, predominances, sovereignties(also sovranties), supremaciesprerogatives, privileges, rightseminences, importances, moments impotences, impotencies weaknesses |