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Pom-pom   /pɔm-pɔm/   Listen
Pom-pom

noun
1.
Decoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk; usually worn on a hat.  Synonym: pompon.
2.
Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes.  Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flack, flak.






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"Pom-pom" Quotes from Famous Books



... never before shot anything larger than a bird, was cool, and his automatic was going off like a pom-pom, when we cut loose on the charging trio. Their numerous companions added to the general din; and the reports of the rifles, the shouts and pounding of the Eskimos, with the bellowing of the infuriated animals, sounded like Vesuvius blowing its head off. We sank one walrus, ...
— The North Pole - Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club • Robert E. Peary



Words linked to "Pom-pom" :   adornment, gun, predictor, Bofors gun



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