Definitions for flakflæk

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

flakflæk(n.)

or flack 2

antiaircraft fire.
Category: Military
critical or hostile reaction.
Category: Common Vocabulary

Origin of flak:

1935–40; < G Fl(ieger)a(bwehr)k(anone) antiaircraft gun

Princeton's WordNet

flak catcher, flak, flack catcher, flack(noun)
a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer
fire, attack, flak, flack, blast(noun)
intense adverse criticism
"Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack, ack-ack gun(noun)
artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes

Wiktionary

flak(Noun)
Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.
flak(Noun)
Anti-aircraft shell fire.
flak(Noun)
Adverse criticism.
flak(Noun)
A public-relations spokesperson.

Origin: acronym of Fliegerabwehrkanone. First attested 1938 as “antiaircraft gun”, 1940 as “antiaircraft fire”. Sense of “adverse criticism” attested since 1963 in American English.