- Flak (disambiguation)
Flak refers to anti-aircraft gunfire, derived from the German "Flugabwehrkanone", for "aircraft defense cannon", during World War II.Flak can also mean:
*Flak jacket , protective clothing worn by soldiers and others to protect themselves from debris and shrapnel
*Criticism , as a metaphorical extension of the previous, e.g. "I'll have to take the flak for what that confounded reporter dug up."
* "Flat land" or "flat sandbank", as a component of Germanic language area place names, e.g.Flakfortet
*Flak, a fictional Commanding Officer in the "Advance Wars " series
*"Flak Magazine ", an American online magazine, founded in 1998See also:
*FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), an audio data compression scheme
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