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ack-ack noun anti-aircraft artillery US, 1926 An initialism, using the phonetic alphabet that was current until 1941. Usage survived the new alphabet rather than being amended to “able able”.- To the south, ack-ack shells are bursting in the sky, and tracer bullets stream upwards. — Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back, p. 72, 1949
- And came in low with ack-ack taunting him on. — Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness, p. 177, 1960
- I had a cross-eyed cousin, an organizer for the farmworker’s union, who had been with an ack-ack battery in the defense of Madrid[.] — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 119, 1961
- Down the lazy valley where the ack-ack hides / The lazy lazy valley on the other side. — Joseph Tuso, Singing the Vietnam Blues, p. 75, 1990: Down the Lazy Valley
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