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noun ˈpɒmpɒmˈpɑmpɑm 1A small woollen ball attached to a garment, especially a hat, for decoration. Example sentencesExamples - You mean those little fuzzy pom-pom balls with plastic googly eyes on them?
- In contrast round toed flats will be adorned with pompoms, rosebud trims, grosgrain bows and Tyrolean ribbons.
- Even now, when I saw the kids in their faux fur-lined coats and pompom topped hats, I could remember the way Rob had knelt to the sidewalk, had so delicately touched one of the young girl's silken braids.
- Terri's was the same dress she wore last year, red with white pompoms dangling off the hem.
- Please, please, please I'll do anything if you convince her not to bring the unicorn and pom-pom sweater this Sunday.
- Kelli jazzed up white curtains by sewing on bright pompoms.
- Rainman tried on the hat - pale purple with a big puffy pom-pom - and cracked me up.
- Unintentional humour is provided by the ‘ninjas,’ who carry rifles and wear ninja hoods with little pompoms on top.
- As her family looked at them and cherished them, they did not critique the design, layout, amount of pompoms, etc.
- Some fun materials to use include buttons, fabric trim, yarn, cotton, feathers and pompoms.
- With her short skirt and pompoms, she searches for the game plan, using snack food and beer to distract some rabid fans that get in her way.
- The following art period, when the gourds were dry, I let the students choose from myriad paint colors, and odds and ends such as felt, pompons and cotton.
- We have pompons, blue and red wigs, glitter and face paint.
- The few clouds resemble little woolen pompoms.
- Their outfit often includes quilted socks with bright red pompons on the toes.
- There are the color-coded pompoms worn on caps designating the 16 branches of the service in 1851.
- Much of the vigor of the textile traditions of Mahdia comes through the embellishment of woven cloth with embroidery and the addition of fringes, tassels, and pompoms.
- Their traditional loincloths are sometimes decorated with bright tassels and pompoms.
- She held up a dark purple hoodie with pompoms on the ties.
- She preferred ones with pompons or clashing colors, but lately she had been restricted to the same bland dress robe she always wore.
- 1.1 A large round cluster of brightly coloured streamers waved in pairs by cheerleaders.
Example sentencesExamples - The stadium literally buzzed with proud mums and dads, brothers and sisters waving tinsel pompoms and cardboard placards, and schoolmates excitedly discussing how they would vote.
- The cheerleaders came off the stage, shaking their pompoms in the excitement of a successful performance.
- Jumping around in a miniskirt, waving pompons when you're ten is cute; but when you're fifteen, well, it goes beyond cute.
- The cheerleaders who were already occupying a big table in the center did the DSV cheer in their seats, waving their pompoms around noisily.
- Some of the crowd even stood as the players entered, some young girls flailing around with blue colored pompoms.
- For the pretty 23-year-old used to be a rugby league cheerleader and regularly performed on the pitch with pompoms at home and away matches.
- For a lot of people, cheerleading immediately conjures images of American college girls, invariably blond and with perfect teeth, wearing cardigans and the team letter on their chest, and of course shaking pompoms.
- They were a crimson blur of pompoms, sneaker squeaks and smiles.
- Give her some pigtails and pompoms and I think she could do it.
- While schoolchildren with pompoms, dragon dancers, and toddlers in pink ballerina outfits stood in the centre of the field, the athletes, waving to the crowd, rode around the perimeter in small vehicles.
- A close second goes to 49ers WR Terrell Owens, who has taken to dancing with pompoms after touchdowns.
- But a few days before the contest the pompoms were found dumped in a garden - and the Red Hot Flames, who regularly appear at the Rugby League club's Willows ground, went on to win a national title at the Manchester Velodrome.
- It is as if we satisfy ourselves with shaking our pompoms and shouting ‘Gay Pride.’
- And Ms Mason, a partner at Sanderson's, stressed there was more to being a cheerleader than simply waving pompoms in the air.
- Hometown crowds try to unnerve enemy shooters with rally towels, pompoms, clackers, rhythmic chants, balloons, and signs that say ‘BRICK.’
- Suddenly, the bare-legged girls with pompoms, imported to pep up the pre-match business at the Premier League's earliest matches, look like a high point for the organisation's modesty and self-awareness.
- Kate dropped the pompoms and headed for the gym exit.
- Jessica had gotten into her perky attitude, and was waving her green and white pompoms in the air even when they weren't doing a choreographed cheer.
- At one point, the school's cheerleading squad, complete with pink pompons, surrounded Borissov wanting a photograph with him.
- But I needed my friends, oh I needed them like a cheerleader needs pompoms.
- 1.2 A dahlia, chrysanthemum, or aster with small tightly clustered petals.
as modifier pompom and border dahlias Example sentencesExamples - The present serious damage to biodiversity comes from conventional invasive species like woody species, lantana, bugweed and pompom.
- Small, miniature, and pompon dahlias should be about 2' apart.
- Contrast flower shapes as well, letting spiky, flat-topped, and pompom blooms play off each other.
- In pompons, many varieties are cataloged but I feel that the following will be very good for our particular purpose: Atom, Aimee, Betty Ann, Joe Fette, Reginald, Betty Malone, and Sherry.
- Although they are largely pruned with secateurs (in the older, more traditional Kyoto style), the pompoms grow all the more densely when pruned mechanically with shears (in the Tokyo style).
- Flower growers cut chrysanthemum blooms soon after the green colour disappeared from the centre of the flowers and harvested pompons when fully developed, but they gathered orchids only when the blooms were fully open.
- Double-petalled, bright lemon-yellow blossoms resembling pompoms grace the top of this very tall plant.
- Other China asters resemble pompons or peonies.
- Some interesting flower forms of mums you can plant include those called buttons, spiders, pompoms, daisy-like, spoons, anemone, singles, doubles, and semi-doubles.
Origin Mid 18th century (originally denoting a bunch of ribbons, feathers, etc. worn by women in the hair or on a dress): French pompon, of unknown origin. noun ˈpɒmpɒmˈpɑmpɑm British An automatic quick-firing two-pounder cannon of the Second World War period, typically mounted on a ship and used against aircraft. Example sentencesExamples - The pompom (or pom-pom, pom pom, etc.) was a 40.5mm automatic cannon that fired 2-lb. (2pdr) ammunition.
- A lighter version of the Maxim pom-pom did see service: the Sockelflak.
- Beyond here, towards the bow, a quadruple two-pounder anti-aircraft or pom-pom gun system with a stack of ammunition ready by its side lends something of a Chuuk lagoon atmosphere to the dives.
Origin Late 19th century: imitative of the sound of the discharge. pom-pom1(also pompon, pompom) nounˈpämpämˈpɑmpɑm 1A small woolen ball attached to a garment, especially a hat, for decoration. Example sentencesExamples - We have pompons, blue and red wigs, glitter and face paint.
- Even now, when I saw the kids in their faux fur-lined coats and pompom topped hats, I could remember the way Rob had knelt to the sidewalk, had so delicately touched one of the young girl's silken braids.
- She held up a dark purple hoodie with pompoms on the ties.
- You mean those little fuzzy pom-pom balls with plastic googly eyes on them?
- Unintentional humour is provided by the ‘ninjas,’ who carry rifles and wear ninja hoods with little pompoms on top.
- Terri's was the same dress she wore last year, red with white pompoms dangling off the hem.
- Their outfit often includes quilted socks with bright red pompons on the toes.
- The few clouds resemble little woolen pompoms.
- Some fun materials to use include buttons, fabric trim, yarn, cotton, feathers and pompoms.
- Their traditional loincloths are sometimes decorated with bright tassels and pompoms.
- There are the color-coded pompoms worn on caps designating the 16 branches of the service in 1851.
- In contrast round toed flats will be adorned with pompoms, rosebud trims, grosgrain bows and Tyrolean ribbons.
- The following art period, when the gourds were dry, I let the students choose from myriad paint colors, and odds and ends such as felt, pompons and cotton.
- Please, please, please I'll do anything if you convince her not to bring the unicorn and pom-pom sweater this Sunday.
- Kelli jazzed up white curtains by sewing on bright pompoms.
- Much of the vigor of the textile traditions of Mahdia comes through the embellishment of woven cloth with embroidery and the addition of fringes, tassels, and pompoms.
- As her family looked at them and cherished them, they did not critique the design, layout, amount of pompoms, etc.
- Rainman tried on the hat - pale purple with a big puffy pom-pom - and cracked me up.
- She preferred ones with pompons or clashing colors, but lately she had been restricted to the same bland dress robe she always wore.
- With her short skirt and pompoms, she searches for the game plan, using snack food and beer to distract some rabid fans that get in her way.
- 1.1 A large round cluster of brightly colored streamers waved in pairs by cheerleaders.
Example sentencesExamples - Suddenly, the bare-legged girls with pompoms, imported to pep up the pre-match business at the Premier League's earliest matches, look like a high point for the organisation's modesty and self-awareness.
- The stadium literally buzzed with proud mums and dads, brothers and sisters waving tinsel pompoms and cardboard placards, and schoolmates excitedly discussing how they would vote.
- Kate dropped the pompoms and headed for the gym exit.
- They were a crimson blur of pompoms, sneaker squeaks and smiles.
- But I needed my friends, oh I needed them like a cheerleader needs pompoms.
- Hometown crowds try to unnerve enemy shooters with rally towels, pompoms, clackers, rhythmic chants, balloons, and signs that say ‘BRICK.’
- The cheerleaders who were already occupying a big table in the center did the DSV cheer in their seats, waving their pompoms around noisily.
- Some of the crowd even stood as the players entered, some young girls flailing around with blue colored pompoms.
- And Ms Mason, a partner at Sanderson's, stressed there was more to being a cheerleader than simply waving pompoms in the air.
- It is as if we satisfy ourselves with shaking our pompoms and shouting ‘Gay Pride.’
- The cheerleaders came off the stage, shaking their pompoms in the excitement of a successful performance.
- At one point, the school's cheerleading squad, complete with pink pompons, surrounded Borissov wanting a photograph with him.
- Give her some pigtails and pompoms and I think she could do it.
- A close second goes to 49ers WR Terrell Owens, who has taken to dancing with pompoms after touchdowns.
- But a few days before the contest the pompoms were found dumped in a garden - and the Red Hot Flames, who regularly appear at the Rugby League club's Willows ground, went on to win a national title at the Manchester Velodrome.
- For a lot of people, cheerleading immediately conjures images of American college girls, invariably blond and with perfect teeth, wearing cardigans and the team letter on their chest, and of course shaking pompoms.
- For the pretty 23-year-old used to be a rugby league cheerleader and regularly performed on the pitch with pompoms at home and away matches.
- While schoolchildren with pompoms, dragon dancers, and toddlers in pink ballerina outfits stood in the centre of the field, the athletes, waving to the crowd, rode around the perimeter in small vehicles.
- Jumping around in a miniskirt, waving pompons when you're ten is cute; but when you're fifteen, well, it goes beyond cute.
- Jessica had gotten into her perky attitude, and was waving her green and white pompoms in the air even when they weren't doing a choreographed cheer.
- 1.2 A dahlia, chrysanthemum, or aster with small tightly clustered petals.
as modifier miniature, pompom, and border dahlias Example sentencesExamples - Other China asters resemble pompons or peonies.
- Flower growers cut chrysanthemum blooms soon after the green colour disappeared from the centre of the flowers and harvested pompons when fully developed, but they gathered orchids only when the blooms were fully open.
- In pompons, many varieties are cataloged but I feel that the following will be very good for our particular purpose: Atom, Aimee, Betty Ann, Joe Fette, Reginald, Betty Malone, and Sherry.
- Although they are largely pruned with secateurs (in the older, more traditional Kyoto style), the pompoms grow all the more densely when pruned mechanically with shears (in the Tokyo style).
- Some interesting flower forms of mums you can plant include those called buttons, spiders, pompoms, daisy-like, spoons, anemone, singles, doubles, and semi-doubles.
- The present serious damage to biodiversity comes from conventional invasive species like woody species, lantana, bugweed and pompom.
- Contrast flower shapes as well, letting spiky, flat-topped, and pompom blooms play off each other.
- Double-petalled, bright lemon-yellow blossoms resembling pompoms grace the top of this very tall plant.
- Small, miniature, and pompon dahlias should be about 2' apart.
Origin Mid 18th century (originally denoting a bunch of ribbons, feathers, etc. worn by women in the hair or on a dress): French pompon, of unknown origin. nounˈpämpämˈpɑmpɑm British An automatic quick-firing two-pounder cannon of the World War II period, typically mounted on a ship and used against aircraft. Example sentencesExamples - The pompom (or pom-pom, pom pom, etc.) was a 40.5mm automatic cannon that fired 2-lb. (2pdr) ammunition.
- A lighter version of the Maxim pom-pom did see service: the Sockelflak.
- Beyond here, towards the bow, a quadruple two-pounder anti-aircraft or pom-pom gun system with a stack of ammunition ready by its side lends something of a Chuuk lagoon atmosphere to the dives.
Origin Late 19th century: imitative of the sound of the discharge. |