[syn: antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
flack
n 1: a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the
advantage of their employer [syn: flak catcher, flak,
flack catcher, flack]
2: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the
Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack";
"don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak,
flack, blast]
3: artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes [syn:
antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-
pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "flack":
advocacy, advocating, antiaircraft fire, bruiting, buildup,
cross fire, curtain fire, direct fire, drumbeating, dry fire,
file fire, fire, fire of demolition, firepower, fireworks, firing,
flak, ground fire, gunfight, gunfire, gunplay, high-angle fire,
horizontal fire, interdiction fire, machine-gun fire, mortar fire,
musketry, percussion fire, pistol fire, promoting, promotion,
publicization, publicizing, raking fire, rapid fire, ricochet fire,
rifle fire, shellfire, shoot-out, shooting, time fire,
vertical fire, zone fire