"ack-ack" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From ack (“A”) + ack (“A”), RAF WWI signalese for AA (“anti-aircraft”). (In modern signalese it would be called alpha-alpha.)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ack-acks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "ack-ack (countable and uncountable, plural ack-acks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "71 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Artillery",
          "orig": "en:Artillery",
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            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The army fired upon us with ack-ack.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Ack-acks were set up in the square.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins, →ISBN, page 140:",
          "text": "He had thought how down there on the ground, on enemy soil, there were probably hundreds of Ivys, nice Fräuleins with buck teeth and fiancés on U-boats, manning the German ack-ack, all united in an effort to kill him.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Antiaircraft artillery."
      ],
      "id": "en-ack-ack-en-noun-VjLP77Wo",
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          "military"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "Antiaircraft",
          "antiaircraft"
        ],
        [
          "artillery",
          "artillery"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military slang) Antiaircraft artillery."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "68 32",
          "sense": "anti-aircraft gun",
          "word": "AAA"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "68 32",
          "sense": "anti-aircraft gun",
          "word": "AA"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The bomber flew through heavy ack-ack.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Antiaircraft fire."
      ],
      "id": "en-ack-ack-en-noun-h0c1~s~R",
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "fire",
          "fire"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military slang, uncountable) Antiaircraft fire."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ack-ack"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English spelled-out initialisms",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Artillery"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ack (“A”) + ack (“A”), RAF WWI signalese for AA (“anti-aircraft”). (In modern signalese it would be called alpha-alpha.)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ack-acks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The army fired upon us with ack-ack.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Ack-acks were set up in the square.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins, →ISBN, page 140:",
          "text": "He had thought how down there on the ground, on enemy soil, there were probably hundreds of Ivys, nice Fräuleins with buck teeth and fiancés on U-boats, manning the German ack-ack, all united in an effort to kill him.",
          "type": "quote"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Antiaircraft artillery."
      ],
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        ],
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        ],
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military slang) Antiaircraft artillery."
      ],
      "tags": [
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      ],
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        "military",
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      ]
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      ],
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        {
          "text": "The bomber flew through heavy ack-ack.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Antiaircraft fire."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "fire",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military slang, uncountable) Antiaircraft fire."
      ],
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      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "anti-aircraft gun",
      "word": "AAA"
    },
    {
      "sense": "anti-aircraft gun",
      "word": "AA"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ack-ack"
}