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pom-pom
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pom-pom has 2 senses
- pom-pom(n = noun.artifact) pompon - decoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk; usually worn on a hat; Array is a kind of adornment
- pom-pom(n = noun.artifact) ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flack, flak - artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes; Array has particulars: bofors gun
is a kind of gun
has parts: predictor
CIDE DICTIONARY
pom-pom, n. [Imitative.].
originally, a Vickers-Maxim one-pounder automatic machine cannon using metallic ammunition fed from a lopped belt attached to the gun; -- popularly so called from its peculiar drumming sound in action. More recently, the term is applied mostly to automatic antiaircraft cannons. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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