Luxembourgish

Noun

Flack f ‎(plural Flacken)

1. flake (esp. of snow)

Derived terms

• flackeg
• Schnéiflack

English

Verb

flack ‎(third-person singular simple present flacks, present participle flacking, simple past and past participle flacked)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To hang loosely; flag.
3. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To beat by flapping.

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

flack ‎(plural flacks)

1. A publicist, a publicity agent.
   • 1998, Winston Smith, Art Crime: The Montage Art of Winston Smith, page 25

     Edward Bernay, who was a consultant to the US Delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference which terminated the first World War (and who finally wound up as a flack for the United Fruit Company in Latin America), believed that propaganda and its covert marketing could effectively alter the will of the American public.

   • 1999, Patricia Cornwell, The Southern Cross, page 233

     Thought you were flack," she said.

     "I'm not flack."

     "All right, P.R., a reporter, a novelist."

Verb

flack ‎(third-person singular simple present flacks, present participle flacking, simple past and past participle flacked)

1. To publicise, to promote.
   • 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld:

     [..] he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.

Etymology 3

Variant of flak.

Noun

flack ‎(countable and uncountable, plural flacks)

1. Alternative spelling of flak.