Meaning Flak
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An organized attempt to influence media content, which can take the form of letters, phone calls, petitions, lawsuits and legislation.
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1938, "anti-aircraft gun," from German Flak, condensed from Fliegerabwehrkanone, literally "pilot warding-off cannon." Sense of "anti-aircraft fire" is from 1940; metapho [..]
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Abbreviated form of German word Fliegerabwehrkanone, or “pilot warding-off cannon” (anti-aircraft fire). (Alexander
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Term used to describe anti-aircraft fire.
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The fire of anti-aircraft guns Termium
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(From FL
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(Fliegerabwehrkanone): Anti-aircraft, see below. Flieger:
Source: feldgrau.com

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(n) a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer(n) intense adverse criticism(n) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
Source: beedictionary.com

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If there's one thing aviators hate, it's catching flak, whether in the air or in the skipper's office. Long before it became the common English word for a chewing, it was the German com [..]
Source: blueridgejournal.com

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Shrapnel from an AAA battery.
Source: voodoo-world.cz

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Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells. * '''1964''', David John Cawdell Irving, ''The Destruction of Dresden'', [http://books.google.com/books?id=b6wrAQAAIAAJ&q=%22flak%22+-intitl [..]
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