Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Alaska
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The red-flowered form of
Calotropis gigantea . Seemadar and yercum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- abbreviation US
Alaska , a state of theUnited States of America . - abbreviation an
AK-47 , AK-74, or related assault rifle (Avtomat Kalasnikova orKalashnikov )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union
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Foreign or not, like it or not, the AK is the pinnacle of both.
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Foreign or not, like it or not, the AK is the pinnacle of both.
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A 19yo high school grad in AK is far more likely to divorce than one of Matt’s Harvard friends who married after they finished their surgical residency at 33. jmo Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Gay Marriage Bans Associated With High Divorce Rate 2010
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To Europe’s south, a busy destination for assault rifles made elsewhere, the acronym AK meant not just the Automatic by Kalashnikov.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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Enjoyed Caribou and Moose in AK but thats not an option anymore.
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Back when I lived in AK had a Win Mdl 70 in 300 Wby and recoil didn't seem to bother me.
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Where were these teabaggers when Alaska, under Sarah Palin, forced oil companies operating in AK to give some of their profits back to the state so that she could "spread the wealth around" to AK citizens for simply sitting on their buns?
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After being around freezing temps for the last few months AK is out of the question.
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Back when I lived in AK had a Win Mdl 70 in 300 Wby and recoil didn't seem to bother me.
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Enjoyed Caribou and Moose in AK but thats not an option anymore.
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