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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An automatic antiaircraft gun based on a Swedish design and having a caliber of 37 or 44 millimeters.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Bofors, a city of south-central Sweden.]

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