Flak (disambiguation)

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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 1998

See also:

• FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), an audio data compression scheme