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Meanings of pom-pom in English
Portuguese
ack-ack-ack Catalan
antiaeri Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes.
Synonyms
Examples for "flak"
Examples for "flak"
1
His camera and bloodied flak jacket were carried on a second stretcher.
2
The then-National Party leader and Prime Minister, Jim Bolger, took the flak.
3
I was getting flak at London Irish, getting pounded all the time.
4
I don't want any flak about pissing off ancestors or hijacking souls.
5
Raheem Sterling cops a lot of flak from the British tabloid press.
1
And he copped a serious amount of fashion flack in the process.
2
And here I'm getting flack from everybody saying there was no money.
3
My father was very unique and he got a lot of flack.
4
And it might keep you from taking any flack from the team.
5
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association gets flack for going with the tried-and-true.
1
The drone was not stealthy and could be targeted by antiaircraft fire.
2
Our three ships dip and weave through the communication and antiaircraft towers.
3
The fighters were bombing and strafing his airfields and the antiaircraft defenses.
4
And, yes, Bradley was indeed using German-crewed antiaircraft guns to kill tanks.
5
And I can use German antiaircraft weapons and crews as well?
1
The second rocket obliterated the top two barrels of the antiaircraft gun on the right.
2
But it had the luck, which most planes, British or German have, to escape antiaircraft gun-fire.
3
A destroyed ZPU-1 antiaircraft gun, previously well camouflaged, sat open and exposed and motionless behind some tattered trees.
4
Do you think I was down there on the ground firing an antiaircraft gun when the planes came over?'
5
The SAM site was defended by a single artillery piece, a double-barreled antiaircraft gun mounted on a flimsy four-wheel carriage.
1
This ack-ack was small beer by comparison, little more than a thin splatter.
2
Ng laughs sharply, like distant ack-ack, and the van almost swerves off the road.
3
Beyond the ack-ack, they heard artillery fire, their own, some way further to the west.
4
Janie with her clever hand on the ack-ack prototype.
5
Engine noise, like barrages from ack-ack guns, rattled back to us from the concrete walls.
1
Engine noise, like barrages from ack-ack guns, rattled back to us from the concrete walls.
2
His arms and his fists were like those old ack-ack guns, rat-a-tat-tat, slamming back and forth, blood flying everywheres, and he just kept charging.
Usage of pom-pom in English
1
And my suitcase has a bilious green pom-pom attached to the handle.
2
Then we argued about how to tie it into a pom-pom.
3
The zip across the top edge had a furry pom-pom to pull it.
4
Once she's away from the pom-pom club, I should be able to trail her.
5
The pom-pom buttons on the front of his suit are as large as saucers.
6
Beside me, Jessica was waving a two-dollar blue-and-orange pom-pom, her face glowing with excitement.
7
Six guns, a pom-pom, and 1000 head of cattle were the prizes of the victors.
8
Our friend the pom-pom once more, and most vivacious.
9
Of the pom-pom, which I succeeded in saving from the enemy's hands, the same writer says:-
10
A new and unpleasant experience in the shape of a pom-pom has come upon the scene.
11
But I believe the pom-pom was smashed up, and a big gun silenced, if not smashed.
12
No more convincing cheerleader ever shook a pom-pom.
13
A pom-pom and twenty prisoners, including the commander of the police, were the trophies of the day.
14
Thus pom-pom ammunition is out of place in the brigade ammunition columns of field artillery, and S.A.A.
15
A pom-pom was lost in this affair.
16
On the 10th he got a pom-pom.