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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈæ.məʊ/, /ˈa.məʊ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈæ.moʊ/
• 韻: -æməʊ

名詞

ammo (usually uncountable, plural ammos)

1. Ammunition.
   • 1917, Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, in Over the Top, G. P. Putnam's, page 297:

     Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, the ammo 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, page 110:

     We walked onto the racecourse like a pair of Wyatt Earps, cashed up and plenty of ammo and we walked off like a pair of Elmer Fudds, out of `buwwets'.

   • 2011, Mark Brannon, Tom Hanrahan, Shooting Sporting Clays, page 39:

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

2. (slang, games, gambling, uncommon) Chips or money, usually at a casino.

派生語

動詞

ammo (third-person singular simple present ammos, present participle ammoing, simple past and past participle ammoed)

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.

Further reading

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

アナグラム

• Mamo, MoMA, OMAM, mamo