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单词 ack-ack
释义

ack-ack

English

ack-ack gun emplacement c. 1941

Etymology

From ack (A) + ack (A), RAF WWI signalese for AA (anti-aircraft). (In modern signalese it would be called alpha-alpha.)

Noun

ack-ack (countable and uncountable, plural ack-acks)

  1. Antiaircraft artillery.
    The army fired upon us with ack-ack.
    Ack-acks were set up in the square.
    • 2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins, →ISBN, page 140:
      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.
  2. (uncountable) Antiaircraft fire
    The bomber flew through heavy ack-ack.

Synonyms

  • (anti-aircraft gun): AAA, AA

References

  • ack-ack at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • ack-ack on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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