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pompom

/pom-pom/US // ˈpɒmˌpɒm //UK // (ˈpɒmpɒm) //

绒球,绒毛,绒布,绒毯

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an automatic antiaircraft cannon.

Examples

  • There are young women who look like they could have come straight from a college campus, in puffy jackets and pompom hats.

  • Towards evening the voice of the pompom was heard in the land; but he bagged nothing—never does.

  • In the afternoon one of our guns on Cæsar's Camp smashed a pompom.

  • As the extended lines of the infantry moved through the town they were greeted by pompom fire, which, however, did no damage.

  • Boers began attack at daybreak with two or three guns and a pompom, shelling the position hard.

  • A deputation of ladies had, meanwhile, presented the Duchess with a table-gong made of pompom shells mounted on a rhinoceros horn.