Ack-ack

Definitions

1. Antiaircraft artillery.
   countable, slang, uncountable
2. Antiaircraft fire.
   slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The army fired upon us with ack-ack.”

“Ack-acks were set⟳ up in the square.”

“He had thought how down there on the ground, on enemy soil, there were probably hundreds of Ivys, nice Fräuleins with buck teeth and fiancés on U-boats, manning the German ack-ack, all united in an effort to kill⟳ him.”

“The bomber flew through heavy ack-ack.”

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