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1 flak -- rank: 1000

flak definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a slick ... turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer [syn: flak catcher, flak, flack catcher, flack] 2: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his ... 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] Merriam ...

2 flak jacket -- rank: 919

flak jacket definitions Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1950 a jacket containing metal plates for protection against flak; broadly a bulletproof vest — called also flak vest Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (flak jackets) A flak jacket is a thick sleeveless jacket that soldiers and policemen ...

3 flak catcher -- rank: 889

flak catcher definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a ... turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer [syn: flak catcher, flak, flack catcher, flack]

4 flak vest -- rank: 874

flak vest definitions Merriam Webster's noun see flak jacket

5 flack -- rank: 651

... turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer [syn: flak catcher, flak, flack catcher, flack] 2: intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his ... 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] Merriam Webster ... provides publicity; especially press agent • flackery noun II. variant of flak III. intransitive verb Date: 1965 to provide publicity ; engage ...

6 Fire -- rank: 410

... government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak, flack, blast] v 1: start firing a weapon [syn: open ... fire off, fire up, fire upon, firepower, fireworks, firing, flack, flak, flame, flame up, flaming, flare, flare up, flashing point, flicker ...

7 antiaircraft gun -- rank: 324

... designed to shoot upward at airplanes [syn: antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom- pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun] Britannica Concise ... effective was the German 88-mm Fliegerabwehrkanone; its abbreviated name, flak, became a universal term for antiaircraft fire. With the introduction ...

8 Blast -- rank: 324

... government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak, flack, blast] v 1: make a strident sound; "She tended ...

9 flack catcher -- rank: 324

... turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer [syn: flak catcher, flak, flack catcher, flack]

10 Attack -- rank: 324

... government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak" [syn: fire, attack, flak, flack, blast] 4: ideas or actions intended to deal with ...

11 Jacket -- rank: 205

... sleeve) N-COUNT 5. see also bomber jacket, dinner jacket, flak jacket, hacking jacket, life jacket, sports jacket, straitjacket Soule's ...

12 infighting -- rank: 205

... fighting, combativeness, contentiousness, dissension, dissent, dissidence, faction, factiousness, fighting, fisticuffs, flak, irascibility, irritability, litigiousness, partisan spirit, partisanship, prizefight, prizefighting, pugilism, pugnacity ...

13 Irascibility -- rank: 205

... edginess, emotional instability, emotionalism, eruptiveness, excitability, excitableness, explosiveness, faction, factiousness, flak, fractiousness, frowardness, huffiness, huffishness, infighting, inflammability, irritability, latent violence, litigiousness ...

14 Imputation -- rank: 205

... criticism, delation, denouncement, denunciation, derivation from, disparagement, etiology, exception, faultfinding, flak, hairsplitting, hit, home thrust, honor, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, impeachment ...

15 hairsplitting -- rank: 205

... division, dodging, equivocation, equivocatory, evasion, evasive, exception, faultfinding, fencing, finespun, flak, hairline, hedging, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercritical, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism ...