POM-POM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pom-pom mean? 

• POM-POM (noun)
  The noun POM-POM has 2 senses:

1. decoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk; usually worn on a hat

2. artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes

  Familiarity information: POM-POM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POM-POM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk; usually worn on a hat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pom-pom; pompon

Hypernyms ("pom-pom" is a kind of...):

adornment (a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness)

Sense 2

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 ("pom-pom" is a kind of...):

gun (a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel))

Meronyms (parts of "pom-pom"):

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 "pom-pom"):

Bofors gun (an automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun)