ack-ack

ack-ack  (kk)

n. Slang

1. An antiaircraft gun.

2. Antiaircraft fire.

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[British telephone code for AA, abbreviation for antiaircraft.]

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ack-ack [ˈækˌæk]

n Military

1. (Military)

a.  anti-aircraft fire

b.  (as modifier) ack-ack guns

2. (Military) anti-aircraft arms

[British army World War I phonetic alphabet for AA, abbreviation of anti-aircraft]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

ack-ack - artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, pom-pom, flack, flak Bofors gun - an automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun gun - a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) predictor - a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival

Translations

ack-ack [ˈækˈæk]

A. N (= gunfire) → fuego m antiaéreo; (= guns) → artillería f antiaérea

B. CPD ack-ack fire N → fuego m antiaéreo
ack-ack gun N → cañón m antiaéreo

ack-ack

n (= fire) → Flakfeuer nt; (= gun) → Flak f