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pom-pom
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Princeton's WordNet
pompon, pom-pomnoun
decoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk; usually worn on a hat
antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gunnoun
artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
GCIDE
Pom-pomnoun
originally, 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. More recently, the term is applied mostly to automatic antiaircraft cannons.
Wiktionary
pom-pomnoun
A rapid-firing small-calibre canon used especially as an anti-aircraft gun
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Pom-pom
pom-pom, n. the name given to a one-pounder quick-firing shell gun, from its sound.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of pom-pom in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of pom-pom in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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