Definition of flak in English:

flak

(North American flack)

noun flakflæk

mass noun

1Anti-aircraft fire.
Example sentencesExamples
- In fact, as soon as you cross the border into the Netherlands, you run into a curtain of flak and a few squadrons of fighters.
- Yet wave upon wave of Royal Air Force bombers, engines humming gently, miraculously avoided the flak fired into the dark night sky.
- The crew could hear metallic pattering on their plane as the run in continued through heavier flak.
- Unlike bomber crews, we could take violent evasive action to get out of accurate heavy flak.
- I did not see any enemy aircraft on the mission, just a lot of flak over Holland.
- Approximately 50 enemy aircraft were in the vicinity and the entire area was full of friendly flak.
- On one mission Harry and his crew were hit by anti-aircraft flak.
- The tail gunner sustained a serious wound to the knee from a piece of flak that had come from underneath.
- Ninety percent of the missions flown drew flak and 20 percent received battle damage.
- This was the time when jaw and stomach muscles tensed awaiting enemy action either by flak or fighter.
- Coming at night, they dropped bombs and lost a few aircraft to flak.
- The mission went well except for some inaccurate flak which didn't cause too much concern.
- We went down to St. Vith and when I looked down all I saw was fire, smoke, and flak going in all directions.
- Flight Officer Allen procured some exceptionally good shots in spite of intense flak.
- For the moment my main concern was not Luftwaffe fighters, lights or flak.
- During the bomb run, a piece of flak the size of a small baseball came through the radar set and struck the Lieutenant in the stomach.
- Opposition was expected to be medium to heavy flak with possible fighter opposition.
- They were sending volley after volley of flack at the bombers.
- As we left the English coast, a hail of flak went up from a ship in mid-Channel right where we were headed.
- They were used to draw searchlights and flak away from these more vulnerable aircraft.
1. 1.1 Strong criticism.
  you must be strong enough to take the flak if things go wrong
  Example sentencesExamples
  One consequence is that ministers will have to take the flak, to accept that they will be blamed for faults, even when those are none of their making.
  For all the recent flak, many Tories are in ridiculously high spirits.
  We know she let her drivers take the flak when they carried her, at speed, halfway across the South Island.
  From a political point of view it would be more clever to withdraw it, take the flak and then forget about it.
  It wouldn't be the first time the industry was made to pick up the tab and take the flak for flawed political policies.
  He steadfastly continued to take the flak for his players until two monumentally awful home defeats to Birmingham and Liverpool.
  We conservatives often take a lot of flak for being overly critical of the liberal viewpoint.
  Right now, the school board is reviewing the program, which has gotten flack from many students at Westminster who complain that it insults their integrity to assume they'd need to be paid to speak up.
  Heck, it can't even kill off a character in a TV serial without getting serious flack.
  As long as religious advocates are willing to take the flak, why should they be ruled out of public debate?
  It's the women who are at the forefront of all the bloodshed, it's the women who have to carry the can and take the flak.
  Do the police not realise that they would have to take the flak if some pedestrian happened to skid and fall on the rank pile?
  I have drawn severe flack from South African circles for criticising their Reserve Bank and for laying the blame for the Rand's demise at their door.
  Now, I refuse to take the flak on that one, though it was a tough call.
  No stranger to taking flak from a variety of critics, Elan has come for more unwelcome attention recently.
  These guys are not accountable to anyone, and we have been left to take the flak.
  While Jimmy catches flack for acting too straight, he criticizes Isaac for dressing, talking and acting too street.
  And I just wanted to compliment Bill on speaking his mind, because I'm sure he gets a lot of flack and criticism for doing this.
  When he does stop, however, I hope there will be other civic-minded people willing to do the work and take the flak.
  The bus drivers take the flak from the customers for what is an expensive and inefficient bus service.
  Synonyms
  criticism, censure, disapproval, disapprobation, hostility, complaints
  castigation, condemnation, denunciation
  opprobrium, obloquy, calumny, calumniation, execration, excoriation, vilification, abuse, revilement, lambasting
  informal brickbats, knocking, panning, slamming, tongue-lashing, a bad press
  British informal stick, verbal, slagging off, slagging

Origin

1930s: from German, abbreviation of Fliegerabwehrkanone, literally 'aviator-defence gun'.

Rhymes

aback, alack, attack, back, black, brack, clack, claque, crack, Dirac, drack, flack, hack, jack, Kazakh, knack, lack, lakh, mac, mach, Nagorno-Karabakh, pack, pitchblack, plaque, quack, rack, sac, sack, shack, shellac, slack, smack, snack, stack, tach, tack, thwack, track, vac, wack, whack, wrack, yak, Zack

Definition of flak in US English:

flak

(North American flack)

nounflakflæk

1Antiaircraft fire.
Example sentencesExamples
- The mission went well except for some inaccurate flak which didn't cause too much concern.
- Coming at night, they dropped bombs and lost a few aircraft to flak.
- On one mission Harry and his crew were hit by anti-aircraft flak.
- Flight Officer Allen procured some exceptionally good shots in spite of intense flak.
- They were sending volley after volley of flack at the bombers.
- As we left the English coast, a hail of flak went up from a ship in mid-Channel right where we were headed.
- Opposition was expected to be medium to heavy flak with possible fighter opposition.
- They were used to draw searchlights and flak away from these more vulnerable aircraft.
- In fact, as soon as you cross the border into the Netherlands, you run into a curtain of flak and a few squadrons of fighters.
- I did not see any enemy aircraft on the mission, just a lot of flak over Holland.
- Ninety percent of the missions flown drew flak and 20 percent received battle damage.
- Unlike bomber crews, we could take violent evasive action to get out of accurate heavy flak.
- For the moment my main concern was not Luftwaffe fighters, lights or flak.
- We went down to St. Vith and when I looked down all I saw was fire, smoke, and flak going in all directions.
- Approximately 50 enemy aircraft were in the vicinity and the entire area was full of friendly flak.
- This was the time when jaw and stomach muscles tensed awaiting enemy action either by flak or fighter.
- Yet wave upon wave of Royal Air Force bombers, engines humming gently, miraculously avoided the flak fired into the dark night sky.
- The crew could hear metallic pattering on their plane as the run in continued through heavier flak.
- During the bomb run, a piece of flak the size of a small baseball came through the radar set and struck the Lieutenant in the stomach.
- The tail gunner sustained a serious wound to the knee from a piece of flak that had come from underneath.
1. 1.1 Strong criticism.
  you must be strong enough to take the flak if things go wrong
  Example sentencesExamples
  When he does stop, however, I hope there will be other civic-minded people willing to do the work and take the flak.
  No stranger to taking flak from a variety of critics, Elan has come for more unwelcome attention recently.
  From a political point of view it would be more clever to withdraw it, take the flak and then forget about it.
  These guys are not accountable to anyone, and we have been left to take the flak.
  Do the police not realise that they would have to take the flak if some pedestrian happened to skid and fall on the rank pile?
  Heck, it can't even kill off a character in a TV serial without getting serious flack.
  And I just wanted to compliment Bill on speaking his mind, because I'm sure he gets a lot of flack and criticism for doing this.
  We know she let her drivers take the flak when they carried her, at speed, halfway across the South Island.
  While Jimmy catches flack for acting too straight, he criticizes Isaac for dressing, talking and acting too street.
  Right now, the school board is reviewing the program, which has gotten flack from many students at Westminster who complain that it insults their integrity to assume they'd need to be paid to speak up.
  The bus drivers take the flak from the customers for what is an expensive and inefficient bus service.
  It wouldn't be the first time the industry was made to pick up the tab and take the flak for flawed political policies.
  One consequence is that ministers will have to take the flak, to accept that they will be blamed for faults, even when those are none of their making.
  As long as religious advocates are willing to take the flak, why should they be ruled out of public debate?
  I have drawn severe flack from South African circles for criticising their Reserve Bank and for laying the blame for the Rand's demise at their door.
  Now, I refuse to take the flak on that one, though it was a tough call.
  We conservatives often take a lot of flak for being overly critical of the liberal viewpoint.
  He steadfastly continued to take the flak for his players until two monumentally awful home defeats to Birmingham and Liverpool.
  It's the women who are at the forefront of all the bloodshed, it's the women who have to carry the can and take the flak.
  For all the recent flak, many Tories are in ridiculously high spirits.
  Synonyms
  criticism, censure, disapproval, disapprobation, hostility, complaints

Origin

1930s: from German, abbreviation of Fliegerabwehrkanone, literally ‘aviator-defense gun’.

单词	flak
释义	Definition of flak in English: flak (North American flack) noun flakflæk mass noun 1Anti-aircraft fire. Example sentencesExamples In fact, as soon as you cross the border into the Netherlands, you run into a curtain of flak and a few squadrons of fighters. Yet wave upon wave of Royal Air Force bombers, engines humming gently, miraculously avoided the flak fired into the dark night sky. The crew could hear metallic pattering on their plane as the run in continued through heavier flak. Unlike bomber crews, we could take violent evasive action to get out of accurate heavy flak. I did not see any enemy aircraft on the mission, just a lot of flak over Holland. Approximately 50 enemy aircraft were in the vicinity and the entire area was full of friendly flak. On one mission Harry and his crew were hit by anti-aircraft flak. The tail gunner sustained a serious wound to the knee from a piece of flak that had come from underneath. Ninety percent of the missions flown drew flak and 20 percent received battle damage. This was the time when jaw and stomach muscles tensed awaiting enemy action either by flak or fighter. Coming at night, they dropped bombs and lost a few aircraft to flak. The mission went well except for some inaccurate flak which didn't cause too much concern. We went down to St. Vith and when I looked down all I saw was fire, smoke, and flak going in all directions. Flight Officer Allen procured some exceptionally good shots in spite of intense flak. For the moment my main concern was not Luftwaffe fighters, lights or flak. During the bomb run, a piece of flak the size of a small baseball came through the radar set and struck the Lieutenant in the stomach. Opposition was expected to be medium to heavy flak with possible fighter opposition. They were sending volley after volley of flack at the bombers. As we left the English coast, a hail of flak went up from a ship in mid-Channel right where we were headed. They were used to draw searchlights and flak away from these more vulnerable aircraft. 1.1 Strong criticism. you must be strong enough to take the flak if things go wrong Example sentencesExamples One consequence is that ministers will have to take the flak, to accept that they will be blamed for faults, even when those are none of their making. For all the recent flak, many Tories are in ridiculously high spirits. We know she let her drivers take the flak when they carried her, at speed, halfway across the South Island. From a political point of view it would be more clever to withdraw it, take the flak and then forget about it. It wouldn't be the first time the industry was made to pick up the tab and take the flak for flawed political policies. He steadfastly continued to take the flak for his players until two monumentally awful home defeats to Birmingham and Liverpool. We conservatives often take a lot of flak for being overly critical of the liberal viewpoint. Right now, the school board is reviewing the program, which has gotten flack from many students at Westminster who complain that it insults their integrity to assume they'd need to be paid to speak up. Heck, it can't even kill off a character in a TV serial without getting serious flack. As long as religious advocates are willing to take the flak, why should they be ruled out of public debate? It's the women who are at the forefront of all the bloodshed, it's the women who have to carry the can and take the flak. Do the police not realise that they would have to take the flak if some pedestrian happened to skid and fall on the rank pile? I have drawn severe flack from South African circles for criticising their Reserve Bank and for laying the blame for the Rand's demise at their door. Now, I refuse to take the flak on that one, though it was a tough call. No stranger to taking flak from a variety of critics, Elan has come for more unwelcome attention recently. These guys are not accountable to anyone, and we have been left to take the flak. While Jimmy catches flack for acting too straight, he criticizes Isaac for dressing, talking and acting too street. And I just wanted to compliment Bill on speaking his mind, because I'm sure he gets a lot of flack and criticism for doing this. When he does stop, however, I hope there will be other civic-minded people willing to do the work and take the flak. The bus drivers take the flak from the customers for what is an expensive and inefficient bus service. Synonyms criticism, censure, disapproval, disapprobation, hostility, complaints castigation, condemnation, denunciation opprobrium, obloquy, calumny, calumniation, execration, excoriation, vilification, abuse, revilement, lambasting informal brickbats, knocking, panning, slamming, tongue-lashing, a bad press British informal stick, verbal, slagging off, slagging Origin 1930s: from German, abbreviation of Fliegerabwehrkanone, literally 'aviator-defence gun'. Rhymes aback, alack, attack, back, black, brack, clack, claque, crack, Dirac, drack, flack, hack, jack, Kazakh, knack, lack, lakh, mac, mach, Nagorno-Karabakh, pack, pitchblack, plaque, quack, rack, sac, sack, shack, shellac, slack, smack, snack, stack, tach, tack, thwack, track, vac, wack, whack, wrack, yak, Zack Definition of flak in US English: flak (North American flack) nounflakflæk 1Antiaircraft fire. Example sentencesExamples The mission went well except for some inaccurate flak which didn't cause too much concern. Coming at night, they dropped bombs and lost a few aircraft to flak. On one mission Harry and his crew were hit by anti-aircraft flak. Flight Officer Allen procured some exceptionally good shots in spite of intense flak. They were sending volley after volley of flack at the bombers. As we left the English coast, a hail of flak went up from a ship in mid-Channel right where we were headed. Opposition was expected to be medium to heavy flak with possible fighter opposition. They were used to draw searchlights and flak away from these more vulnerable aircraft. In fact, as soon as you cross the border into the Netherlands, you run into a curtain of flak and a few squadrons of fighters. I did not see any enemy aircraft on the mission, just a lot of flak over Holland. Ninety percent of the missions flown drew flak and 20 percent received battle damage. Unlike bomber crews, we could take violent evasive action to get out of accurate heavy flak. For the moment my main concern was not Luftwaffe fighters, lights or flak. We went down to St. Vith and when I looked down all I saw was fire, smoke, and flak going in all directions. Approximately 50 enemy aircraft were in the vicinity and the entire area was full of friendly flak. This was the time when jaw and stomach muscles tensed awaiting enemy action either by flak or fighter. Yet wave upon wave of Royal Air Force bombers, engines humming gently, miraculously avoided the flak fired into the dark night sky. The crew could hear metallic pattering on their plane as the run in continued through heavier flak. During the bomb run, a piece of flak the size of a small baseball came through the radar set and struck the Lieutenant in the stomach. The tail gunner sustained a serious wound to the knee from a piece of flak that had come from underneath. 1.1 Strong criticism. you must be strong enough to take the flak if things go wrong Example sentencesExamples When he does stop, however, I hope there will be other civic-minded people willing to do the work and take the flak. No stranger to taking flak from a variety of critics, Elan has come for more unwelcome attention recently. From a political point of view it would be more clever to withdraw it, take the flak and then forget about it. These guys are not accountable to anyone, and we have been left to take the flak. Do the police not realise that they would have to take the flak if some pedestrian happened to skid and fall on the rank pile? Heck, it can't even kill off a character in a TV serial without getting serious flack. And I just wanted to compliment Bill on speaking his mind, because I'm sure he gets a lot of flack and criticism for doing this. We know she let her drivers take the flak when they carried her, at speed, halfway across the South Island. While Jimmy catches flack for acting too straight, he criticizes Isaac for dressing, talking and acting too street. Right now, the school board is reviewing the program, which has gotten flack from many students at Westminster who complain that it insults their integrity to assume they'd need to be paid to speak up. The bus drivers take the flak from the customers for what is an expensive and inefficient bus service. It wouldn't be the first time the industry was made to pick up the tab and take the flak for flawed political policies. One consequence is that ministers will have to take the flak, to accept that they will be blamed for faults, even when those are none of their making. As long as religious advocates are willing to take the flak, why should they be ruled out of public debate? I have drawn severe flack from South African circles for criticising their Reserve Bank and for laying the blame for the Rand's demise at their door. Now, I refuse to take the flak on that one, though it was a tough call. We conservatives often take a lot of flak for being overly critical of the liberal viewpoint. He steadfastly continued to take the flak for his players until two monumentally awful home defeats to Birmingham and Liverpool. It's the women who are at the forefront of all the bloodshed, it's the women who have to carry the can and take the flak. For all the recent flak, many Tories are in ridiculously high spirits. Synonyms criticism, censure, disapproval, disapprobation, hostility, complaints Origin 1930s: from German, abbreviation of Fliegerabwehrkanone, literally ‘aviator-defense gun’.
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