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Bofors gun

  [boh-fawrz, -fawrs]
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–noun
1. a 40-millimeter automatic gun used chiefly as an antiaircraft weapon.
2. two such guns mounted and fired together as one unit.
Origin:
1935–40; named after Bofors, Sweden, where first made
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Bo·fors gun   (bō'fôrz', bōō'-)   
n.  An automatic antiaircraft gun based on a Swedish design and having a caliber of 37 or 44 millimeters.

[After Bofors, a city of south-central Sweden.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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