"flak jacket" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: flak jackets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: flak jacket Categories (topical): Clothing Related terms: bulletproof vest Translations (piece of protective clothing): sirpaleliivi (Finnish), gilet pare-éclats [masculine] (French), but see kamizelka kuloodporna [feminine] (Polish), бронежиле́т (bronežilét) [masculine] (Russian), splitterskyddsväst [common-gender] (Swedish)

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