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  • Mrs. C
    It's from a German word that means anti-aircraft gun ... but I don't know the word. I know it from wondering about what "flak" jacket meant.
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  • Stranger in a Strange Land
    Fliegler Abwehr Kannon, German for anti-aircraft gun. +4
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  • iwnit
    "Flugabwehrkanone (auch Fliegerabwehrkanone genannt, kurz FlaK)" Source and further information: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak "flak 1938, from Ger. Flak, acronym for Fliegerabwehrkanone "airplane defense cannon." Sense of "anti-aircraft fire" is 1940; metaphoric sense of "criticism" is c.1963 in Amer.Eng." Source and further information: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=flak&searchmode=none
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