WordNet
n. artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes [syn: antiaircraft, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun]
Usage examples of "antiaircraft gun".
Deverill watched as the radar-enhanced infrared image of the tanklike mobile antiaircraft gun unit got bigger and bigger on his large multifunction display.
Winds were mostly calm and the visibility was good, so it was simple to put the aiming pipper right on the car with the antiaircraft gun, and he squeezed the trigger.
The big antiaircraft gun bucked and shook, but thanks to Wohl's exoskeleton, he was able to keep the weapon fairly steady.
The U-2 bucked in the air, as if it had taken a hit from an antiaircraft gun.
Do you think I was down there on the ground firing an antiaircraft gun when the planes came over?
An antiaircraft gun was still popping away at him, but that didn’.
He slides the last twenty feet at terrifying speed and is caught and held, in various places, by eight strong hands who lift him to what passes for safety: the deck of the U-boat, just aft of the conning tower, sort of nestled underneath an antiaircraft gun.