flak
n.
antiaircraft fire; criticism, verbal abuse
Anti-aircraft warfare
Machinae Supremacy
flak
Noun
1. a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer
(synonym) flak catcher, flack catcher, flack
(hypernym) spokesperson, interpreter, representative, voice
2. intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
(synonym) fire, attack, flack, blast
(hypernym) criticism, unfavorable judgment
3. artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
(synonym) antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun
(hypernym) gun
(hyponym) Bofors gun
(part-meronym) predictor
Flak (die)
n.
anti-aircraft gun, A A gun
flak
Synonyms and related words:
abuse, adverse criticism, aggressiveness, animadversion, antiaircraft fire, artillery, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, battery, bellicosity, belligerence, bickering, blame, cannon, cannonry, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, coast artillery, combativeness, complaints, condemnation, contentiousness, criticism, cross fire, curtain fire, direct fire, disapprobation, disapproval, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dry fire, exception, faction, factiousness, faultfinding, field artillery, file fire, fire, fire of demolition, firepower, fireworks, firing, flack, ground fire, gunfight, gunfire, gunplay, hairsplitting, heavy field artillery, high-angle fire, hit, home thrust, horizontal fire, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, infighting, interdiction fire, irascibility, irritability, knock, litigiousness, machine-gun fire, mortar fire, musketry, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, ordnance, overcriticalness, partisan spirit, partisanship, percussion fire, pestering, pettifogging, pistol fire, priggishness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, quibble, quibbling, raking fire, rap, rapid fire, reflection, reproachfulness, ricochet fire, rifle fire, shellfire, shoot-out, shooting, shrewishness, siege artillery, siege engine, slam, stricture, swipe, taking exception, time fire, trench artillery, trichoschistism, vertical fire, zone fire
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.