Definitions
artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
Word origin
From Middle English flacken (“to palpitate, flutter”), from Old English *flaccian, from Proto-West Germanic *flakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *flakkōną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-, which could be related to Ancient Greek πλάζω (plázō, “to turn away from”).
Used in a sentence
“Thought you were flack," she said. "I'm not flack." "All right, P.R., a reporter, a novelist."”
“And he [Ben Shapiro] called Stephen K. Bannon, the onetime chief strategist for Mr. Trump, a former “P.R. flack for Jeffrey Epstein.””
“[..] he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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