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flacks

flacks is the plural of flack.

flacks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of flack.

Meaning of flack

Noun

flack (plural flacks)

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

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Questions about flacks

What is flacks the plural of?
Flacks is the plural of flack.

Words near flacks in the dictionary

  1. flackers
  2. flackery
  3. flacket
  4. flackets
  5. flacking
  6. flacks
  7. Flackwell Heath
  8. flacon
  9. flacons
  10. flacourtia
  11. flacourtiaceous

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