Flack Definition
flăk
flacks
noun
flacks
Webster's New World
Webster's New World
A publicist, a publicity agent.
Wiktionary
Alternative spelling of flak.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- flack catcher
- flak
- flak catcher
- blast
- attack
- fire
- ack-ack gun
- ack-ack
- pom-pom
- antiaircraft-gun
- antiaircraft
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
Origin of Flack
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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
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Variant of flak.
From Wiktionary
Unknown
From Wiktionary
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