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n. (pom-pom English)
Usage examples of "pom-poms".
Always the same extended advance, always the same rattle of Mausers and clatter of pom-poms from a ridge, always the same victorious soldiers on the barren crest, with a few crippled Boers before them and many crippled comrades behind.
On the 27th he reported seventeen more Boer casualties and 140 surrenders, while on the last day of the month he took another gun and two pom-poms.
No blame attaches to the gunners for this, as a hill intervened to screen the Boer artillery, which consisted of five big guns and two pom-poms.
There are a dozen of these, plus spare ammo crates, a dozen miniguns, crates of mines, grenade launchers *and* grenades, and two field-stripped artillery pieces, four-barrel pom-poms with twelve crates of ammo, everything from starbursts and smoke rounds through to CBW warheads.
His guns were firing over open sights, trying to suppress them, which meant that they had to more or less ignore the steady flow of men over the embankment and into the open groundalthough, thank the Spirit, they had knocked out the brace of pom-poms there.
A whippet tank crunched over the wreck and covered the group with its multiple pom-poms.