Flack

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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