ack-ack

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   artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes

   Synonymsantiaircraftantiaircraft gunflakflackpom-pomack-ack gun

   Broadergun

   NarrowerBofors gun

   Partspredictor

Questions about ack-ack

What does ack-ack mean?

ack-ack means "artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes".

How many syllables are in ack-ack?

ack-ack has 2 syllables: ac-k-ack. The stress falls on "ac".

What is another word for ack-ack?

Close synonyms include antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-pom. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ack-ack a common word?

ack-ack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.