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flaming onions

flaming onions is the plural of flaming onion.

Meaning of flaming onion

Noun

flaming onion (plural flaming onions)

  1. (historical, slang) A 37 mm Hotchkiss revolving-barrel anti-aircraft gun used by the German army at the beginning of World War I.
  2. (historical, slang) The flare or tracer ammunition fired by this weapon.
    • Allied pilots feared and loathed these, because a hit from a flaming onion instantly turned an aeroplane into an inferno.1985, Robert Harrison, Aviation Lore in Faulkner, page 116

Questions about flaming onions

What is flaming onions the plural of?
Flaming onions is the plural of flaming onion.

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