Clipping ofammunition +‎-o.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˈæ.məʊ/,/ˈa.məʊ/
• (General American)IPA^(key): /ˈæ.moʊ/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• Rhymes:-æməʊ

ammo (usuallyuncountable,pluralammos)

1. (informal)Ammunition.
   • 1917,Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, inOver the Top, G. P. Putnam's,page297:

     Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, theammo carrier, is lying in the rear with a bullet through his napper. Then it's “napoo-fini” (Tommy's French) for Mr. Lewis.

   • 2011, Mark Brannon, Tom Hanrahan,Shooting Sporting Clays, page39:

     As with handguns and rifles, someammos are more accurate than others.

2. (slang, games, gambling, uncommon)Chips ormoney, usually at acasino.

ammo (third-person singular simple presentammos,present participleammoing,simple past and past participleammoed)

1. (transitive, informal) To load up on ammunition.

   Synonym:ammo up

   • 2001, H. Beam Piper,Uller Uprising:

     "Harry and Hassan are getting the car re-ammoed; they dropped me off here.

• “ammo n.”, inGreen’s Dictionary of Slang,Jonathon Green, 2016–present

• Mamo,MoMA,OMAM,mamo

FromProto-Finnic*ammo, fromProto-Uralic*aŋmɜ-. Cognate toIngrianammillaa,Voticammulla,Estonianammuli,Estonianammu,Livonianamtlõ(“to yawn”),Skolt Samiämmsõddâd(“to yawn”),Western Mari[script needed](omeštaš,“to talk or move while in sleep or to talk unclearly”),Southern Selkup[script needed](āmmu-,“yawnable, something that makes one to yawn”)(Ket),Kamassian[script needed](a’moi-,“yawnable, something that makes one to yawn”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmːo/,[ˈɑ̝mːo̞]
• Rhymes:-ɑmːo
• Hyphenation^(key):am‧mo

ammo(dialectal, rare)

1. something that widens on a mouth section, like a mouth or a cavity

• Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “ammo”, inSuomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja‎^[1] (in Finnish), retrieved2024-01-01
• “ammuli”, in[ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation),2012
• Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000),Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society,→ISBN
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008),Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Borrowed fromArabicأَمَّا(ʔammā,“as for”).

ammo

1. but

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