- ack-ack
- noun Etymology: British signalmen's former telephone pronunciation of AA, abbreviation of antiaircraft Date: 1926 an antiaircraft gun; also antiaircraft fire
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Ack Ack Ack Ack — (sometimes known as Ack Ack Ack ) is a song by early American punk band The Urinals. It appeared on their second record, Another EP , and can be found on the compilation CD Negative Capability... Check It Out .The song is a very basic anti war… … Wikipedia
ACK — is sometimes used as an exclamation, an onomatopoeia for disgust, or as choking on something foul.Ack ack is a term for anti aircraft artillery fire.ACK as an abbreviation that may refer to: * ACK (computing), a signal used in computing and other … Wikipedia
ack-ack — n. [from AA, meaning antiaircraft pronounced ack ack by British signalmen.] (Mil.) Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes; antiaircraft artillery. Syn: antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, pompom, pom pom, ack ack gun [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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ack-ack — 1939, representing A.A., the military abbreviation for anti aircraft (see ACK (Cf. ack)) … Etymology dictionary
ack — ack; ack·er; ack·ey; chi·ack; ky·ack; … English syllables
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ack — British oral code for letter A in wireless and telephone communication, 1898; hence ack ack anti aircraft (gun, fire, etc.) … Etymology dictionary
ack-ack — [ak′ak΄] n. [echoic; prob. expansion of abbrev. A.A., antiaircraft artillery] Slang an antiaircraft gun or its fire … English World dictionary
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