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Definition of Flack

1. Noun. A slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer.

2. Noun. Intense adverse criticism. "Don't give me any flak"

3. Noun. Artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes.

Definition of Flack

1. Noun. a publicist, a publicity agent ¹

2. Verb. to publicise, to promote ¹

3. Noun. (alternative spelling of flak) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flack

1. to work as a press agent [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flack

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flaccid part of tympanic membrane flaccider flaccidities flaccidity flaccidly flack (current term) flack catcher flacked flacker flackered

flackeries flackers flackery flacket flackets flacking flacks flacon flacons flacourtia family

Literary usage of Flack

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"The defendant by its answer denied all the allegations of the complaint, and alleged that on the 20th day of February, 1891, it loaned ME flack & Co., ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"The Keith-flack Node in the Production of Cardiac Arrhythmia.—The recent investigations of Walter Koch upon the anatomy and pathology of the bundle of ..."

3. Orations, Addresses and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910)
"MEMORIAL OF WILLIAM H. flack ADDRESS ON RESOLUTIONS IN MEMORY OF ... Mr. William Henry flack commenced the struggle early, with no advantages other than ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas for the by Charles Patrick Daly (1892)
"flack. CHARLES LEWIS et al., Appellants, against JAMES ... flack, Sheriff of the City and County of New York, Respondent. (Decided June 2d, 1890. ..."

5. Reports of Cases in Chancery, Argued and Determined in the Rolls Court by Baron Henry Bickersteth Langdale, Chaloner William Chute, John Romilly Romilly, Charles Beavan (1847)
"flack ». LONGMATE. A party died in 1830, having vested in him a mortgage in fee, and the lapse of time and circumstances were such, as to render it very ..."

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