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noun
A ball made of pieces of soft fabric, tinsel, plastic, or paper streamers, tied together in the middle and left loose at the ends, used as decoration or as a showy prop for cheerleading.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Alteration of pompon, from French pompon (“ornamental tuft”); of unknown origin, perhaps related to Old French pomp.
Across languages
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
