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How to pronounce “flak”
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Pronunciation guide for flak
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of flak with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 6 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- War Journalism Should Be Rooted in Empathy — Not Violence
you'd probably conjure up an image of someone in a helmet, a flak jacket,
- Definition summary
- Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells. [from 1938]
Example 1 of 6
How to pronounce flak
War Journalism Should Be Rooted in Empathy — Not Violence
you'd probably conjure up an image of someone in a helmet, a flak jacket,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “flak”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells. [from 1938]
- Anti-aircraft shell fire. [from 1940]
- (figuratively, informal) Adverse criticism. [from 1963]
- (informal) A public-relations spokesperson.
- [Verb]
- to throw, hurl, toss, fling off
- to smack
- (figurative) to cast off, eject
- (figurative) to renounce, reject
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