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cuerna de chivo 

'Cuerna de chivo" (KWEARNA dah CHEE-vo) is Spanish for "Ram's horn." This is a nickname for the AK-47 assault rifle, which has a distinctive curved magazine, bringing to mind the curved horns of a male mountain sheep. It is a fully-automatic machine gun under U.S. law.

The AK-47 has many civilian copies ("clones") which are not technically assault rifles, because they are semi-automatic, and are NOT machine guns under U.S. law. They look very similar to actual AK-47's and to compound the confusion, are often called "AK's". And in Mexican Spanish, also called "cuerna de chivos."
"Hey, Pablo, let's go bust some caps with your new cuerna de chivo!"
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cuerno de chivo

noun
1. Mexican slang term for an AK-47, whose literal meaning is "goat's horn", in reference to the curved magazine clip or banana clip that the armament uses.
From the song "Pacas de a Kilo" by Los Tigres del Norte:

" Por ahí andan platicando que un día me van a matar no me asustan las culebras yo sé perder y ganar ahí traigo un cuerno de chivo para el que le quiera entrar"
cuerno de chivo by Naquerrimo January 28, 2005
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cuerno de chivo

literally: Horn of goat
slang: AK-47 or any sub-machine gun
Ill stick that cuerno de chivo up your ass and pull the trigger
cuerno de chivo by zest April 7, 2003