Flak

Noun

 * 1) Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.
 * 2) Anti-aircraft shell fire.
 * 3)  Adverse criticism.
 * 4)  A public-relations spokesperson.

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

Alternative forms

 * flack

Etymology
acronym of Fliegerabwehrkanone: or Flugabwehrkanone:. First attested 1938 as “antiaircraft gun”, 1940 as “antiaircraft fire”. Sense of “adverse criticism” attested since 1963 in American English.

Pronunciation

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Translations

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Synonyms

 * AAA, triple-A
 * ack-ack

Noun
flak (flak-s, flök)


 * 1) a wreck
 * 2) filet, (UK) fillet (of fish)

Synonyms

 * rekald
 * flak af fiski

Derived terms

 * flaka

Noun
flak


 * 1) a gut (intestine)

Noun

 * 1) a flat object, a floe, a flatbed
 * 2) a bed, the (open) cargo area of a vehicle (e.g. truck, lorry, pickup truck, dump truck, tip truck)

Related terms

 * flakbil
 * flakcykel
 * flakmoped
 * isflak
 * lastbilsflak
 * tippflak