flack

created by Ereneta

(person) by Ereneta (1.6 d) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Jun 13 2001 at 18:48:29

American English: a publicist or press agent. Came into usage around 1946, but the etymology is obscure. It could be a derivation of "flak," as a public relations person would certainly be a flak catcher. Ed Boyer of the Los Angeles Times notes that the veterans of WW2 and Korea he worked with in the newsroom dismissed calls from publicists as "just so much flak," treating reporters and their questions as if they were incoming enemies.

Flak	Bowling for Columbine	Sweet Smell of Success	blurb
continuous-rod warhead	shrapnel	The same liver twice	Ann Coulter
Greenpeace	Renaissance is for sissies, real men wear armor	Dehiscence	warhead
flak jacket	Flax	Black	Ciceronian
Ruminations on being lost in a foreign country as a young boy

Y'know, if you log in, you can write something here, or contact authors directly on the site. Create a New User if you don't already have an account.

Login
Password

Glowing Fish
Tualatin River	(place)
The Jacket
Words of Advice	(idea)
keepinitreal
Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?	(idea)
John_Fox
Good Intentions Gone Wrong	(person)
Cuckowski
Slavonic Princess	(poetry)
Heitah
Posthumous Oscar	(thing)
ignis_glaciesque
University of South Florida	(place)
ignis_glaciesque
Flogstaskriket	(idea)
liveforever
Caesar's last breath	(idea)
dagnyswaggart
she wants to believe	(personal)
antigravpussy
he doesn't know, but her eyes widen too far	(thing)
dagnyswaggart
Wild tides guard her secrets	(poetry)
Lord Brawl
Caesar's last breath	(poetry)
locke baron
Forgotten things in space	(fiction)
sitaraika
Colours	(idea)