ack-ack

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Staring at those roaring ack-ack guns with deadbeat of hearts

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  • Using proximity fuzes, British ack-ack gunners (many of them women) learned how to shoot down the 400 mph V-1s; nothing could stop the supersonic V-2s. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Staring at those roaring ack-ack guns with deadbeat of hearts —  Bloggers.Pakistan
  • This is the one with the line about the "heart attack-ack-ack" where he attack-ack-acks people who work two jobs so they can "trade in their Chevy for a Cadillac" - ack-ack, something B.J. would never do. —  Expecting Rain
  • We urge caution around pole dancers, and those with enhanced chests, lest the nipples peel back and strafe the club with ack-ack fire … —  Anorak News
  • Now look at the videos online of all the ack-ack fire over Colombo that night. —  Kottu
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  1. British telephone code for AA, abbreviation for antiaircraft.
 

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