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flak
Anti-aircraft shell fire.
📑 Synonyms:
ack-ack
(figuratively, informal) Adverse criticism.
💬 Quotations
Flak from the powerful can be either direct or indirect. The direct would include letters or phone calls from the White House to Dan Rather or William Paley, or from the FCC to the television networks asking for documents used in putting together a program, or from irate officials of ad agencies or corporate sponsors to media officials asking for reply time or threatening retaliation.
(informal) A public-relations spokesperson.
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