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• n  decoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk; usually worn on a hat
• n  artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes

• He was greeted in the streets of Peterborough by roughly 1,000 screaming, pom-pom waving and freezing supporters.
• At Purdue she ran for freshman-class treasurer and formed the Pep Girls, a pom-pom cheerleader squad that she directed with no nonsense.
• As they wave their arms, they look a bit like high school cheerleaders learning a pom-pom routine.

• pompon
• antiaircraft
• antiaircraft gun
• flak
• flack
• ack-ack
• ack-ack gun

News & Articles

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• If Only the Monsters University Writers Had Taken a Quick Sendak Seminar
  Terrorizing children in their bedrooms remains the existential concern of the toothy blobs, hams and pom-pom-furred Wild Things that populate Monsters movies, many of whom look like gummy nothings long stuck to the bottom of Pixar's junk drawer. Their very lives depend upon coaxing night-s...
  June 19, 2013 - Dallas Observer

Quotes

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• John Calipari in Dallas Morning News (registration)
  This is going to be a man's game,Calipari said. "If you're not sturdy, you're going to be pushed right into the cheerleaders. You're going to have a pom-pom in your hand pretty fast."
• Adalius Thomas in Boston Herald
  Give (the quarterback) a pom-pom and put him in a skirt,Thomas said, adding later, ''sooner or later, it's going to be two-handed touch."