flack
IPA: fɫˈæk
noun
- (Canada, US) A publicist, a publicity agent.
- A surname.
- Alternative spelling of flak. [Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.]
verb
- (intransitive, obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To beat by flapping.
- (Canada, US) To publicise, to promote.
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Examples of "flack" in Sentences
- He never gave a media interview, telling an overeager label flack: "It's better that way; when I talk, it's rubbish."
- Pardon my language but how in the flickitty-flack is choking and punching someone after you threaten to kill them a “mistake?”
- If Mr. Obama is catching the requisite flack from the right, he's also getting it from the left, and it's not just over economics.
- Now I am probably going to catch a lot of flack from the pseudo-EMO crowd that follows these novels like a bevy of groveling lemmings.
- Like some of the others who've commented, I got a lot of flack from a certain family member about staying home before the children came.
- The reason I think this will get some flack is because often people cannot distinguish a story that stands on its own from a criticism on their beliefs.
- “In fact, we got flack from the studio one day, because we shot nine rolls of film of just Sharlto in this one scene; he just kept going and going and going!”
- Back in April, the Department of Homeland Security caught a lot of flack from the right wing for issuing the memo that warned of "lone wolves" from both the extreme left and the right committing acts of terror just like this.
- With today's Federal Communications Commission members taking regular flack from the television industry for being too deferential to the big telecom companies in areas such as spectrum allocation, it's easy to forget that the FCC has been staffed by people more sympathetic to broadcaster concerns.
- However, I thought you might be interested in one of the most obnoxious articles on the topic ever, from MacLean's (Canada's newsweekly) -- basically, the article quotes some flack from the plastic bag industry protesting Toronto's bag charge on the grounds that bags are only a small part of the ocean's trash, and therefore we shouldn't expend our efforts there but fight other plastics instead.
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