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The definition of a flack is a publicity agent.

(noun)

An example of a flack is a person who makes sure a celebrity stays in the public eye.

Flack is defined as to promote something or someone.

(verb)

An example of flack is to hand out fliers for a club.

See flack in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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noun

Slang press agent

Origin: < ?

intransitive verb

Slang to serve as a press agent

Related Forms:

flackery noun

noun

flak

See flack in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A press agent; a publicist.

verb flacked, flack·ing, flacks

verb, intransitive

To act as a press agent: flacking for a movie studio.

verb, transitive

To act as a press agent for; promote: authors who tour the country flacking their books.

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flackˈer·y noun

noun

Variant of flak.

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