What does acme mean?

Like I see it everywhere in movies and stuff. Its getting annoying. What does it mean???

It used to appear in all the old Warner Bros. Road Runner cartoons. The usual story about this is that way back in the 50's, when the cartoons were first made, the company that created the hole punchers, for punching holes in the cells before the days of 2D digital paint, had the word ACME written on them.

The animators borrowed the name to use it on the various gadgets employed by Wile. E. Coyote in his hopeless attempts to catch the Road Runner in Chuck Jones's famous cartoon.

I didn't know that about the hole punch. Acme does mean peak or summit so it is a good company name. There have been other real products with the Acme trademark (Sears used this brandname early on) but ever since the Road Runner it is mostly associated with cartoons.

Back when we used to name servers real names I suggested Spacely and Cogswell from the Jetsons. When a third server was added the only other ficticious cartoon company name anyone could think of was Acme. Now management thinks naming servers this way is unprofessional so now all of our servers have names like s312x203 which is so much easier to remember!

acme was a company who made anvils if you know what those are then your good to go

cool thanks guys