'flak' definitions:
Definition of 'flak'
(from WordNet)
noun
A slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer [syn: flak catcher, flak, flack catcher, flack]
noun
Intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak, flack, blast]
noun
Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes [syn: antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom- pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun]
Synonyms of 'flak'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse,
- adverse criticism,
- aggressiveness,
- animadversion,
- antiaircraft fire,
- artillery,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- battery,
- bellicosity,
- belligerence,
- bickering,
- blame,
- cannon,
- cannonry,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- censure,
- coast artillery,
- combativeness,
- complaints,
- condemnation,
- contentiousness,
- criticism,
- cross fire,
- curtain fire,
- direct fire,
- disapprobation,
- disapproval,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- dry fire,
- exception,
- faction,
- factiousness,
- faultfinding,
- field artillery,
- file fire,
- fire,
- fire of demolition,
- firepower,
- fireworks,
- firing,
- flack,
- ground fire,
- gunfight,
- gunfire,
- gunplay,
- hairsplitting,
- heavy field artillery,
- high-angle fire,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- horizontal fire,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- imputation,
- infighting,
- interdiction fire,
- irascibility,
- irritability,
- knock,
- litigiousness,
- machine-gun fire,
- mortar fire,
- musketry,
- nagging,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- obloquy,
- ordnance,
- overcriticalness,
- partisan spirit,
- partisanship,
- percussion fire,
- pestering,
- pettifogging,
- pistol fire,
- priggishness,
- pugnacity,
- quarrelsomeness,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- raking fire,
- rap,
- rapid fire,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- ricochet fire,
- rifle fire,
- shellfire,
- shoot-out,
- shooting,
- shrewishness,
- siege artillery,
- siege engine,
- slam,
- stricture,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- time fire,
- trench artillery,
- trichoschistism,
- vertical fire,
- zone fire