flack

2 definitions found

flack - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  flack
      n 1: a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the
           advantage of their employer [syn: flak catcher, flak,
           flack catcher, flack]
      2: 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]
      3: artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes [syn:
         antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-   pom
         , ack-ack, ack-ack gun]

flack - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "flack":
     advocacy, advocating, antiaircraft fire, bruiting, buildup,
     cross fire, curtain fire, direct fire, drumbeating, dry fire,
     file fire, fire, fire of demolition, firepower, fireworks, firing,
     flak, ground fire, gunfight, gunfire, gunplay, high-angle fire,
     horizontal fire, interdiction fire, machine-gun fire, mortar fire,
     musketry, percussion fire, pistol fire, promoting, promotion,
     publicization, publicizing, raking fire, rapid fire, ricochet fire,
     rifle fire, shellfire, shoot-out, shooting, time fire,
     vertical fire, zone fire