0 strong criticism or opposition:
1 the firing of guns from the ground at enemy aircraft, or the bullets, etc. that the guns fire:
2 strong criticism or opposition:
3 strong criticism or opposition:
4 → flack
They want a coalition, so that they can share the political flak.
I ran into a heavy wall of flak from the business community.
They will be able to get their pictures much easier and better, for there will be no flak or fighters to impede them.
There is no air raid shelter for him when the flak begins to fly.
There was some heavy and light flak, but no damage to our aircraft.
Equally, they were not prepared to take the political flak from a sale to a foreign bidder.
Whoever takes the lead in introducing state funding will take the flak.
The crisis has placed officials in front of the media more and more, taking the flak.