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flak jacket

flak jacket noun: a special piece of clothing worn by soldiers to protect them from shrapnel and grenade fragments, other non-direct fire and battlefield debris. Sometimes used informally to connote any of the various forms of a bullet-proof vest.

Noun

flak jacket (plural flak jackets)

  1. A special piece of clothing worn by soldiers to protect them from shrapnel and grenade fragments, other non-direct fire and battlefield debris. Sometimes used informally to connote any of the various forms of a bullet-proof vest.
    • By longstanding, bipartisan tradition, decades of White House press secretaries have handed down a cheeky symbol of their job fielding rat-a-tat inquiries from feisty reporters: a flak jacket.2022 May 20, Michael M. Grynbaum, “White House Press Secretary Gets a New ‘Flak Jacket’: A Women’s Blazer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

flak jacket meaning in Tamil

flak jacket in Tamil

காப்பு அணி

Forms of flak jacket

pluralflak jackets

Questions about flak jacket

What does flak jacket mean?
Flak jacket means a special piece of clothing worn by soldiers to protect them from shrapnel and grenade fragments, other non-direct fire and battlefield debris. Sometimes used informally to connote any of the various forms of a bullet-proof vest.
What is flak jacket in Tamil?
Flak jacket in Tamil is காப்பு அணி. See Flak jacket meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is flak jacket?
Flak jacket is a noun.
What is the plural of flak jacket?
The plural of flak jacket is flak jackets.

Words near flak jacket in the dictionary

  1. Flajolet-Martin algorithm
  2. flajolotite
  3. flak
  4. flak catcher
  5. flak catchers
  6. flak jacket
  7. flak jackets
  8. flak-catcher
  9. flak-catchers
  10. flakable
  11. flakage

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