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- Dictionaryflack/flak/
noun
- 1. a publicity agent: "a public relations flack"
verb
- 1. publicize or promote (something or someone): "a crass ambulance-chaser who flacks himself in TV ads"
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The meaning of FLACK is one who provides publicity; especially : press agent. How to use flack in a sentence. Did you know?
a person chosen by a group or organization that is in a difficult situation to speak officially for them to the public and answer questions and criticisms. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Speakers & talkers. caller. commentator. conversationalist. debater. demagogic. demagogically.
A flack (or flak) jacket will protect your body from projectiles, but it doesn’t protect you from insults. Flack is also a word for a promoter. If you publish a book, you’ll need to flack — or promote it — yourself or hire a professional flack who will convince everyone to buy it.
1. Slang. press agent. verb intransitive. 2. Slang. to serve as a press agent.
FLACK Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com. Advertisement. flack. 1. [ flak ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA. noun. press agent. publicity. verb (used without object) to serve as a press agent or publicist: to flack for a new rock group. verb (used with object) to promote; publicize: to flack a new record. flack. 2. [ flak ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA. noun.
flak noun [U] (FIRING OF GUNS) the firing of guns from the ground at enemy aircraft, or the bullets, etc. that the guns fire: They flew into heavy flak over the target area. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of flak from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Define flack. flack synonyms, flack pronunciation, flack translation, English dictionary definition of flack. Informal n. A press agent; a publicist. v. flacked , flack·ing , flacks v. intr. To act as a press agent: flacking for a movie studio. v. tr.
To act as a press agent for; promote.
Definition of flack noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
When you hear of someone "catching flack," you're hearing a figurative extension of a term used for antiaircraft guns, or for the shells fired from them. That term, more commonly spelled flak, is short for Fliegerabwehrkanonen, from the German words for "flyer," "defense," and "cannons."
