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Definitions for Flack

[1] press agent.
[2] publicity.
[3] to serve as a press agent or publicist: to flack for a new rock group.
[4] to promote; publicize: to flack a new record.
[5] flak.
[6] antiaircraft fire, especially as experienced by the crews of combat airplanes at which the fire is directed.
[7] criticism; hostile reaction; abuse: Such an unpopular decision is bound to draw a lot of flak from the press.
[8] mainly US and Canadian a press or publicity agent
[9] a variant spelling of flak
[10] anti-aircraft fire or artillery
[11] informal a great deal of adverse criticism

Words related to Flack

hardship, objection, sorrow, resentment, grief, injustice, outrage, unhappiness, entanglement, squabble, brouhaha, quandary, spat, stink, distress, damage, holler, rap, affliction, bellyache

Words nearby Flack

flabby, flabellate, flabelli-, flabellum, flaccid, flack, flackery, flacon, flag, flag captain, flag day

Origin of Flack

k1935–40; < German Fl(ieger)a(bwehr)k(anone ) antiaircraft gun, equivalent to Flieger aircraft (literally, flyer) + Abwehr defense + Kanone gun, cannon

Words that may be confused with Flack

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, flakflack, flak

Word origin for Flack

kC20: from German Fl (ieger ) a (bwehr ) k (anone ), literally: aircraft defence gun

Synonyms for Flack

grief, hardship, injustice, objection, outrage, resentment, sorrow, unhappiness, affliction, beef, bellyache, blast, case, cross, damage, distress, grouse, holler, hoo-ha, howl, injury, jeremiad, kick, knock, pain, rap, rigor, roar, rumble, squawk, stink, trial, tribulation, trouble, violence, wrong, yell, ax to grind, big stink, pain in the neck