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noun
A type of anti-aircraft gun used widely by the Western allies in World War II.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
an automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun
History
From Bofors, the name of the Swedish manufacturer.
