flack
Other forms: flacks
If someone gives you flack about wearing shorts in the winter, tell them to chill out. Flack is a criticism. Flack also refers to anti-aircraft guns, and then sometimes it’s spelled flak.
Flack as a criticism comes from the military sense, as it feels like an attack. A flack (or flak) jacket will protect your body from projectiles, but it doesn’t protect you from insults. Flack is also a word for a promoter. If you publish a book, you’ll need to flack — or promote it — yourself or hire a professional flack who will convince everyone to buy it. The German root is Fliegerabwehrkanone, "aviator-defense gun."
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intense adverse criticism
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a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employersynonyms: flack catcher, flak, flak catchertype of:interpreter, representative, spokesperson, voicean advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
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artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanessynonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, pom-pomtypes:Bofors gunan automatic double-barreled antiaircraft guntype of:guna weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
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Vocabulary lists containing flack
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