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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A one-pounder automatic Maxim gun.
- n. A religious dance observed by the Yakima Indians of Washington, similar in character to the religious dances held by other tribes of the plateaus of Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia. It seems that the pompom relates to the belief of the return of the dead. Young people have the right to contract marriages during these dances.
Wiktionary
- n. onomatopoeia A decorative ball made of pieces of soft fabric bound at the centre, most notably used in cheerleading
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mil.) originally, a Vickers-Maxim one-pounder automatic machine cannon using metallic ammunition fed from a lopped belt attached to the gun; -- popularly so called from its peculiar drumming sound in action. More recently, the term is applied mostly to automatic antiaircraft cannons.
- n. an ornamental ball or tuft of wool, feathers, or other fluffy material used as a decoration on clothing such as hats and slippers.
- n. a pompon.
WordNet 3.0
- n. decoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk; usually worn on a hat
- n. artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
Examples
“At young London designer David Koma's show, it fell in op-art formation on body-conscious dresses and in circles laser-cut out of leather dresses with the odd pompom placed here and there to emphasise the point.”
“This all came together so fast — she interviewed on campus just last week — that Azzi didn't have time to update her wardrobe with any green and gold, so she grabbed a pompom featuring the school colors from the office of athletic director Debra Gore-Mann on the way to her introductory news conference.”
“A sophomore on her pompom team tried to claim a jersey Diop had received from a football player.”
“Bill Belichick has to be verrrrrry comfy with his strength to wear which cheerleadery pompom round upon a tip of his hat.”
“NEW YORK — A bobbing little pompom put on a peak performance at the Westminster Kennel Club.”
The Huffington Post: Westminster Best In Show 2012: Malachy The Pekingese Wins Dog Competition
“Then we put a Santa Claus hat with a white pompom on his head, took his picture, and slipped it into our family photo album, which naturally, over time, yellowed and will one day disintegrate into ash.”
The Huffington Post: Tom Grimes's "The Leash": Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature
“Dahlias occupy a special place in many gardeners 'hearts, affording a spectacular range of types, sizes, and colors, ranging from small pompom blooms to amazing "dinner plate" flowers.”
“He smiled at her and pressed his fingertip against one of her pompom ponytails.”
“He had his arms up with a pompom in each hand and one between his feet.”
“SIMON: Howard Bryant, senior writer for ESPN. com, ESPN the Magazine, ESPN the pompom.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pompom’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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double-take
the same word twice with two different meanings for each word and reduplications
sweet sweet, number number, side side, sing sing, by by, sitting sitting, light light, so so, rare rare, medium medium, card card, word word and 41 more...
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kimo2000's Words
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Mary and Max (2009)
Words from 2009 'Mary and Max' film.
muddy, puddle, birthmark, piggyback, pensive, gumnut, pompom, salvage, takeaway, oven, shed, deliberate and 112 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
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Isograms
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Toot Toot, Beep Beep!
chichi, tomtom, weewee, poohpooh, tutu, tsetse, ta-ta, peepee, woop woop, ack-ack, ding-ding, bon bon and 44 more...
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double double
found on a little post-it in a library book
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Tweets
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bilby Spelling never changes. Ever. Oct 28, 2008
sionnach To most people that fuzzy ball on the top of a knit hat and the implement wielded by a cheerleader are both “pompoms,�? but to traditionalists they are “pompons,�? spelled the way the French—who gave us the word—spell it. A pompom, say these purists, is only a sort of large gun. Oct 28, 2008