ack-ack
/'æk'æk/
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Anti-aircraft guns, known as ack-ack, fire at enemy bombers in the night sky.
Definition
Noun: 1. Anti-aircraft artillery: Artillery, typically guns or missile systems, specifically designed to engage and destroy enemy aircraft from the ground. The term is informal and originates from military slang.
Usage
The term is used to refer to the weapons themselves or, by extension, the fire from such weapons. * The city's defenses were bolstered with new ack-ack batteries. * Pilots could see the ack-ack exploding in the sky around them.
Advanced Usage
- "Ack-ack fire" or "ack-ack barrage": Intense anti-aircraft fire.
- The bomber squadron flew through heavy ack-ack fire.
Variants and Related Words
- Anti-aircraft (adj/n): The formal and more common term for weapons designed to combat aircraft.
- Anti-aircraft missiles
- Flak (n): A direct synonym, also originating from the German acronym for anti-aircraft gun. It is often used interchangeably with "ack-ack" to mean both the guns and their exploding shells.
- The plane took some flak over the target zone.
Synonyms
- Anti-aircraft gun(s)
- Flak
- AAA (an initialism for Anti-Aircraft Artillery)
Anti-aircraft guns, known as ack-ack, fire at enemy bombers in the night sky.
Noun
- artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes