ACK-ACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ack-ack mean? 

• ACK-ACK (noun)
  The noun ACK-ACK has 1 sense:

1. artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes

  Familiarity information: ACK-ACK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACK-ACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

ack-ack; ack-ack gun; antiaircraft; antiaircraft gun; flack; flak; pom-pom

Hypernyms ("ack-ack" is a kind of...):

gun (a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel))

Meronyms (parts of "ack-ack"):

predictor (a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ack-ack"):

Bofors gun (an automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun)