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"word": "flak catcher"
},
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"word": "take the flak"
}
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"2": "Fliegerabwehrkanone",
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"4": "anti aeroplane cannon"
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"etymology_text": "Borrowed from German FlaK, short for Fliegerabwehrkanone (“anti aeroplane cannon”).",
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"ref": "1964, David John Cawdell Irving, The Destruction of Dresden, page 74",
"text": "[…] to consider whether the city was in February 1945 an undefended city within the meaning of the 1907 Hague Convention, it will be necessary to examine the establishment and subsequent total dispersal of the city's flak batteries, before the date of the triple blow.",
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},
{
"ref": "2007, Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., Retreat to the Reich: The German Defeat in France, 1944, footnote, page 30",
"text": "He was promoted to general of flak artillery on March 1, 1945, and ended the war as the general of the flak arm at OKL, the High Command of the Luftwaffe.",
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"Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells."
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gāoshèpào",
"sense": "ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells",
"word": "高射炮"
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"sense": "ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells",
"word": "luchtafweergeschut"
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"sense": "ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells",
"word": "ilmatorjuntatykki"
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"sense": "ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells",
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"word": "Flugabwehrkanone"
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"sense": "ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells",
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"word": "protuzračna artiljerija"
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"word": "protivvazdušna artiljerija"
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"word": "fuego antiaéreo"
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"ref": "1943 November 29, “Target: Germany”, in Life, page 80",
"text": "At 1057 we were just over the islands and at 1100 the tail gunner reported flak at six o'clock, below.",
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},
{
"text": "1984, Steve Harris, \"Aces High\", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.\nThere goes the siren that warns of the air raid / Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak / Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne / Got to get up for the coming attack.",
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{
"ref": "1999, Brian O'Neill, Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer, page 118",
"text": "I could hear the fragments from the flak shells hitting the plane like someone throwing rocks at it.",
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"sense": "anti-aircraft shell fire",
"word": "antiluftskytsgranat"
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"sense": "anti-aircraft shell fire",
"word": "luchtafweergranaten"
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"sense": "anti-aircraft shell fire",
"word": "ilmatorjuntatuli"
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"sense": "anti-aircraft shell fire",
"word": "fuego antiaéreo"
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"ref": "1981 June 25, Michael Sragow, “Inside ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ - The ultimate Saturday matinee”, in Rolling Stone",
"text": "There’s always been a built-in backlash against big-scale caprices like Raiders of the Lost Ark from people who think that $20 million should be spent on more than entertainment for its own sake. Raiders may also get flak for not being as cuddly-lovable as Star Wars, or for using those old reliables – the Nazis – as villains, or for dazzling the audience with an almost brazen self-confidence.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1990, Joel H. Spring, The American School, 1642-1990, page 380",
"text": "This filter Herman and Chomsky call “flak,” which refers to letters, speeches, phone calls, and other forms of group and individual complaints. Advertisers and broadcasters avoid programming content that might cause large volumes of flak.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport",
"text": "Alex McLeish, perhaps mindful of the flak he has been taking from sections of the Villa support for a perceived negative style of play, handed starts to wingers Charles N'Zogbia and Albrighton.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 January 12, Tom Allett, “Network News: MPs concerned at Treasury's influence on rail industry”, in RAIL, number 948, page 13",
"text": "More flak was aimed at the Treasury's apparent lack of marketing skills, when it was argued that its idea of how to sell tickets was along the lines of \"you can get two tickets for the price of two\", and it lacks the sales and promotional skills of the train operating companies which are needed to boost revenue.",
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"word": "перекрёстный ого́нь"
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