Clipping ofammunition +-o.
ammo (usuallyuncountable,pluralammos)
- (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.
1995,Paul Vautin,Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page110:We walked onto the racecourse like a pair of Wyatt Earps, cashed up and plenty ofammo and we walked off like a pair of Elmer Fudds, out of `buwwets'.
2011, Mark Brannon, Tom Hanrahan,Shooting Sporting Clays, page39:As with handguns and rifles, someammos are more accurate than others.
- (slang, games, gambling, uncommon)Chips ormoney, usually at acasino.
ammo (third-person singular simple presentammos,present participleammoing,simple past and past participleammoed)
- (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.
FromProto-Finnic*ammo, fromProto-Uralic*aŋma-w. 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
- Syllabification(key):am‧mo
- Hyphenation(key):am‧mo
ammo(dialectal, rare)
- 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), retrieved1 January 2024
- “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”).
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