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flak
English
Alternative forms
- flack (adverse criticism and spokesperson senses)
Etymology
Borrowed from German FlaK, short for Fliegerabwehrkanone (“anti aeroplane cannon”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flæk/
- Rhymes: -æk
- Homophone: flack
Noun
flak (countable and uncountable, plural flaks)
- Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells. [from 1938]
- Synonyms: ack-ack, AAA, triple-A
- 1964, David John Cawdell Irving, The Destruction of Dresden, page 74,
- […] to consider whether the city was in February 1945 an undefended city within the meaning of the 1907 Hague Convention, it will be necessary to examine the establishment and subsequent total dispersal of the city's flak batteries, before the date of the triple blow.
- 2007, Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., Retreat to the Reich: The German Defeat in France, 1944, footnote, page 30,
- He was promoted to general of flak artillery on March 1, 1945, and ended the war as the general of the flak arm at OKL, the High Command of the Luftwaffe.
- Anti-aircraft shell fire. [from 1940]
- Synonym: ack-ack
- 1943 November 29, Target: Germany, in Life, page 80,
- At 1057 we were just over the islands and at 1100 the tail gunner reported flak at six o'clock, below.
- 1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.
- 1999, Brian O'Neill, Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer, page 118,
- I could hear the fragments from the flak shells hitting the plane like someone throwing rocks at it.
- (figuratively, informal) Adverse criticism. [from 1963]
- 1990, Joel H. Spring, The American School, 1642-1990, page 380,
- This filter Herman and Chomsky call “flak,” which refers to letters, speeches, phone calls, and other forms of group and individual complaints. Advertisers and broadcasters avoid programming content that might cause large volumes of flak.
- 1990, Joel H. Spring, The American School, 1642-1990, page 380,
- (informal) A public-relations spokesperson.
- 2006, Edward Herman, Noam Chomsky, A Propaganda Model, in 2006 [2001], Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Douglas Kellner (editors), Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks, revised edition, page 277,
- AIM head, Reed Irvine's diatribes are frequently published, and right-wing network flaks who regularly assail the “liberal media,” such as Michael Ledeen, are given Op-ed column space, sympathetic reviews, and a regular place on talk shows as experts.
- 2006, Edward Herman, Noam Chomsky, A Propaganda Model, in 2006 [2001], Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Douglas Kellner (editors), Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks, revised edition, page 277,
Translations
See also
- flak jacket
Anagrams
- KLFA, falk
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *awa-laka, from Proto-Indo-European *lek- (“to jump, scuttle”) (compare Norwegian lakka (“to hop, patter about”), Latvian lèkt (“to spring, jump”), Ancient Greek ????? (l?ká?, “to dance to music”).
Verb
flak (first-person singular past tense flaka, participle flakur)
- to throw, hurl, toss, fling off
- to smack
- (figuratively) to cast off, eject
- (figuratively) to renounce, reject
Related terms
- fletë
References
Icelandic
Etymology
Borrowed through German flach (“flat”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flakaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fla?k/
- Rhymes: -a?k
Noun
flak n (genitive singular flaks, nominative plural flök)
- wreck
- filet, (UK) fillet (of fish)
Declension
Synonyms
- (wreck): rekald n
- (a fish fillet): flak af fiski n
Derived terms
- flaka
See also
- lundir (of beef etc.)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse flaga, flak
Noun
flak n (definite singular flaket, indefinite plural flak, definite plural flaka or flakene)
- a flake
- floe (of ice)
- tail (of a garment; coat tail, shirt tail)
Derived terms
- isflak
References
- “flak” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “flak_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “flak_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse flaga, flak. Akin to English flake.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fl??k/
Noun
flak n (definite singular flaket, indefinite plural flak, definite plural flaka)
- a flake
- floe (of ice)
- tail (of a garment; coat tail, shirt tail)
Derived terms
- isflak
- snøflak
References
- “flak” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Plautdietsch
Adjective
flak
- shallow (not deep)
Polish
Etymology
From Middle High German vlëcke.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flak/
Noun
flak m inan
- sausage casing made from animal intestine
- (informal) flat tire
- (colloquial) innard, entrail
Declension
Related terms
- flaki
Further reading
- flak in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed through German flach (“flat”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *flakaz.
Noun
flak n
- a flat object, a floe, a flatbed
- a bed, the (open) cargo area of a vehicle (e.g. truck, lorry, pickup truck, dump truck, tip truck)
Declension
Related terms
- flakbil
- flakcykel
- flakmoped
- isflak
- lastbilsflak
- tippflak
Anagrams
- falk
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fleak
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fli?k/
Noun
fleak (plural fleaks)
- (obsolete) A flake; a thread or twist.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61:
- […] that all the businesses of Men do very much depend upon these little long fleaks or threds of Hemp and Flax.
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61:
Anagrams
- Flake, flake
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