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noun

Pom-pom, Pompom n. (Mil.) 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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pom-pom" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the farm-house on the distant kopje quite hysterical over the near presence of the British, and the entire place in such an uproar that we slept out in the veldt. In the morning we were awakened by the sound of the Vickar-Maxim or the "pom-pom" as the English call it, or "bomb-Maxim" as the Boers call it. By any name it was a remarkable gun and the most demoralizing of any of the smaller pieces which have been used in this campaign. One of its values is that its projectiles throw up ...

— Notes of a War Correspondent • Richard Harding Davis

... come back. The red German pom-pom has gone from her cap and she wears the badge of the Belgian Motor Cyclist Corps, black wings on a white ground. Providence has rehabilitated himself. He has abased our trained nurse and expert motorist ...

— A Journal of Impressions in Belgium • May Sinclair

Words linked to "Pom-pom" : ack-ack gun, ack-ack, flak, pompon, Bofors gun, adornment, antiaircraft, flack, antiaircraft gun