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noun flakflæk North American informal A publicity agent. Example sentencesExamples - One has to pity the poor flacks who have to defend a corporate officer's speech characterized not just by US-bashing but by sheer fatuousness.
- I quite like utilising my preference vote to suit my own needs rather than those of the various party flacks who always wave their how-to-vote cards at me like demented stockbrokers on election day.
- But this time, there were no flacks to do the spinning.
- Practically every word you say is a lie and you know it, regardless of what administration you work for (and as all good PR flacks know, it doesn't matter what the product is as long as you sell it well).
- This is not a battle the university can win - but it may take their dinosaur-like lawyers and PR flacks a while to get that into their tiny brains.
- Most embedded reporters claimed that they were not really restrained, but rather assisted in their work by Pentagon press flacks.
- Even in a rural county with just 67,000 souls, the candidates and their flacks have become a regular fixture.
- First, understand that the 25 percent of flacks who admit lying are the honest ones.
- According to sources, lots of Hollywood types were backstage, including agents, PR flacks, managers and special guests.
- In Canada, the herb has become a mainstream recreational indulgence for everyone from bored petroleum engineers to stressed-out public relations flacks.
- Still, the empire is paying those flacks good money to write crummy press release headlines, and they're just cutting and pasting.
- The bankers put up $150,00, hired professional flacks and launched a television assault.
- And also, it gives more credence to these flacks essentially.
- I can say from experience that Michael knows his onions like no other flack I've ever met.
- The university is clamping down on media access during his summer booster club tour, and publicity flacks are shielding the most available man in college football.
- Replicated at the grass roots, some kind of PR alchemy transforms longtime opportunists into profiles in courage and timeworn corporate flacks into champions of the common people.
- In fact, the British flacks have used their facade of congeniality and cooperation to spread some of the most blatant falsifications of the campaign.
verb flakflæk [with object]North American informal Publicize or promote. each author is flacking his ‘exclusive’ account of the whole mess Example sentencesExamples - He has sponsored and flacked for the badly misnamed and recently passed ‘African Growth and Opportunity Act.’
- He is the consummate natural actor who endows every role with effortless conviction; he could flack for cell phones, wine, whatever, and have you laughing or crying.
- They hire cool alpha boys to flack products to their pals.
- Now, comes word of yet another right-leaning columnist getting paid to flack for a Republican administration's policies.
- Is the New York Times breaking the news - or flacking for the military?
- The magazine also criticized ‘the polemical, partisan mean-spiritedness that lies at the heart of his book, and to an even greater degree, his television appearances flacking it.’
- The current state of publishing does make that task more difficult - the din of publishers competing to flack their latest ‘hot’ titles can become deafening at times.
- Journalists use the word to refer to a PR person's job of flacking - as in shilling - for a company.
- In 1979, when the Three Mile Island nuclear power disaster occurred in Pennsylvania, President Carter went out of his way to flack for the atomic-energy industry.
Synonyms publicize, make public, make known, give publicity to, bill, post, announce, broadcast, proclaim, trumpet, shout from the rooftops, give notice of, call attention to, promulgate
Derivatives nounˈflakəri North American informal I quote it in full, for the sheer pleasure of wallowing in high-grade flackery. Example sentencesExamples - But with our eyes on the prize, we should not stumble into the classic trap of candidate flackery while applying political cosmetics.
- The entrenchment of public-relations managers in business - abetted by schools of journalism that now offer degrees in flackery - means that press access to workers and hands-on executives becomes ever more limited and controlled.
- And that's just the leading edge of the flackery.
- But movies written and designed to suit their own advertising flackery remained the industry's idea of ‘leading edge’ work.
Origin 1940s: of unknown origin. Rhymes aback, alack, attack, back, black, brack, clack, claque, crack, Dirac, drack, flak, hack, jack, Kazakh, knack, lack, lakh, mac, mach, Nagorno-Karabakh, pack, pitchblack, plaque, quack, rack, sac, sack, shack, shellac, slack, smack, snack, stack, tach, tack, thwack, track, vac, wack, whack, wrack, yak, Zack nounflakflæk North American informal A publicity agent. Example sentencesExamples - I can say from experience that Michael knows his onions like no other flack I've ever met.
- And also, it gives more credence to these flacks essentially.
- The bankers put up $150,00, hired professional flacks and launched a television assault.
- Most embedded reporters claimed that they were not really restrained, but rather assisted in their work by Pentagon press flacks.
- Even in a rural county with just 67,000 souls, the candidates and their flacks have become a regular fixture.
- Replicated at the grass roots, some kind of PR alchemy transforms longtime opportunists into profiles in courage and timeworn corporate flacks into champions of the common people.
- The university is clamping down on media access during his summer booster club tour, and publicity flacks are shielding the most available man in college football.
- I quite like utilising my preference vote to suit my own needs rather than those of the various party flacks who always wave their how-to-vote cards at me like demented stockbrokers on election day.
- But this time, there were no flacks to do the spinning.
- First, understand that the 25 percent of flacks who admit lying are the honest ones.
- In Canada, the herb has become a mainstream recreational indulgence for everyone from bored petroleum engineers to stressed-out public relations flacks.
- According to sources, lots of Hollywood types were backstage, including agents, PR flacks, managers and special guests.
- Still, the empire is paying those flacks good money to write crummy press release headlines, and they're just cutting and pasting.
- Practically every word you say is a lie and you know it, regardless of what administration you work for (and as all good PR flacks know, it doesn't matter what the product is as long as you sell it well).
- One has to pity the poor flacks who have to defend a corporate officer's speech characterized not just by US-bashing but by sheer fatuousness.
- This is not a battle the university can win - but it may take their dinosaur-like lawyers and PR flacks a while to get that into their tiny brains.
- In fact, the British flacks have used their facade of congeniality and cooperation to spread some of the most blatant falsifications of the campaign.
verbflakflæk [with object]North American informal Publicize or promote (something or someone) a crass ambulance-chaser who flacks himself in TV ads no object the local news media shamelessly flack for the organizing committee Example sentencesExamples - The magazine also criticized ‘the polemical, partisan mean-spiritedness that lies at the heart of his book, and to an even greater degree, his television appearances flacking it.’
- The current state of publishing does make that task more difficult - the din of publishers competing to flack their latest ‘hot’ titles can become deafening at times.
- Now, comes word of yet another right-leaning columnist getting paid to flack for a Republican administration's policies.
- He is the consummate natural actor who endows every role with effortless conviction; he could flack for cell phones, wine, whatever, and have you laughing or crying.
- They hire cool alpha boys to flack products to their pals.
- Journalists use the word to refer to a PR person's job of flacking - as in shilling - for a company.
- In 1979, when the Three Mile Island nuclear power disaster occurred in Pennsylvania, President Carter went out of his way to flack for the atomic-energy industry.
- He has sponsored and flacked for the badly misnamed and recently passed ‘African Growth and Opportunity Act.’
- Is the New York Times breaking the news - or flacking for the military?
Synonyms publicize, make public, make known, give publicity to, bill, post, announce, broadcast, proclaim, trumpet, shout from the rooftops, give notice of, call attention to, promulgate
Origin 1940s: of unknown origin. |