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ACK-ACK GUN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ack-ack gun mean?
• ACK-ACK GUN (noun)
The noun ACK-ACK GUN has 1 sense:
1. artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
Familiarity information: ACK-ACK GUN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
ack-ack; ack-ack gun; antiaircraft; antiaircraft gun; flack; flak; pom-pom
Hypernyms ("ack-ack gun" is a kind of...):
gun (a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel))
Meronyms (parts of "ack-ack gun"):
predictor (a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ack-ack gun"):
Bofors gun (an automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun)
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