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pompom

pompom

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pom-pom  \Pom"-pom`\,  n.  [Imitative.] 
  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  Sometimes  any  of  other  similar  automatic  cannons. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pom-pom 
  n  1:  a  ball  of  tufted  wool  or  silk  worn  on  a  hat  for  decoration 
  [syn:  {pompon}] 
  2:  artillery  designed  to  shoot  upward  at  airplanes  [syn:  {antiaircraft}, 
  {antiaircraft  gun},  {flak},  {ack-ack},  {ack-ack  gun}]