Definitions for flak

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IPA: /flæk/

Flak is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in flak (afkl).

Definitions for flak

noun

  1. antiaircraft fire, especially as experienced by the crews of combat airplanes at which the fire is directed.
  2. criticism; hostile reaction; abuse:

Origin of flak

1935-40; German Fl(ieger)a(bwehr)k(anone) antiaircraft gun, equivalent to Flieger aircraft (literally, flyer) + Abwehr defense + Kanone gun, cannon

Examples for flak

Sim's ship had picked up a small piece of flak, but it had done no damage.

When NYC Prep premiered, it got a lot of flak for the sheer gall of its unreality.

Stan laid over and made a sweep, ducking in and out of the flak.

We never worried about the flak much because we could normally avoid it.

Over the estuary of the Rhine River Stan met his first flak.

You fired off a tweet about ISIS recently that got you some flak.

I'll take you right down on top of them, and nuts to their flak fire.

It felt to me like a plane flying through the flak of an economy.

They looked younger now than when weighed down in camouflage, flak jackets and helmets.

He was bare armed under a protective jacket a jail official termed “a kind of flak jacket.”

Word Value for flak
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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