Flack Definition

flăk
flacks
noun
flacks
Webster's New World
Webster's New World

A publicist, a publicity agent.

Wiktionary

Alternative spelling of flak.

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Synonyms:
verb
To serve as a press agent.
Webster's New World
To act as a press agent for; promote.
Authors who tour the country flacking their books.
American Heritage

(intransitive, UK dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.

Wiktionary

(UK dialectal) To beat by flapping.

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Other Word Forms of Flack

Noun

Singular:
flack
Plural:
flacks

Origin of Flack

  • From Middle English flacken (“to palpitate, flutter”), akin to Middle Dutch vlacken (“to flicker, flash, sparkle”), Danish flakke (“to wander”), Swedish flacka (“to rove, rove about, ramble”), Icelandic flakka (“to move”). Compare also Icelandic flaka (“to flap, hang loose”), Swedish flaxa (“to flap, flutter”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Perhaps after Gene Flack a movie press agent in the 1920s and 1930s

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Variant of flak.

    From Wiktionary

  • Unknown

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