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Flak was introduced to the English language in World War II to refer to the anti-aircraft fire from anti-aircraft guns, from the German Flugabwehrkanone (Flak), for "aircraft defence cannon".

Contents

• Warfare
• People
• Arts, entertainment, and media
• Fictional entities
• Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
• Other uses
• See also

Flak may also refer to:

Warfare

• Flak tower, a defensive structure

People

• Simon Flak (1923–1999), Franco-Polish footballer and manager

Arts, entertainment, and media

Other uses

• Flak, intense criticism, a metaphor derived from intense anti-aircraft gunfire
• "Flak", a class of the propaganda model advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
• Flak, "flat land" or "flat sandbank", a component of Germanic language area place names, e.g. Flakfortet
• Flak jacket, protective clothing worn by soldiers and others to protect themselves from debris and shrapnel

See also

• FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), an audio data compression scheme
• Flak or Flack, an informal term for a media relations representative
• Flack (disambiguation)

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