automatics
- 1Plural of automatic.
Police officers in the city carry standard-issue automatics.
Among the cars on the lot, the automatics sold faster than the manuals.
Note
A regular plural that covers two quite different things: cars with automatic transmissions, and semi-automatic pistols. The setting usually decides which is meant, a car lot or a police holster. One trap is worth knowing. As a noun for handguns, an automatic is a semi-automatic pistol, firing once per trigger pull. The adjective automatic, applied to a weapon, means one that keeps firing as long as the trigger is held.
automatics is a form of automatic
automatic, noun: A vehicle whose gears change on their own, or the gear system that does so. Full entry
- Forms
- automaticautomatics plural
- Spelling
- automatic → automatics: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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