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flak
1938, from Ger.
Flak,
acronym for
Fl
ieger
a
bwehr
k
anone "airplane defense cannon." Sense of "anti-aircraft fire" is 1940; metaphoric sense of "criticism" is c.1963 in Amer.Eng.