Definition of "flack" []

• A press agent; a publicist. (noun)
• To act as a press agent: flacking for a movie studio. (verb-intransitive)
• To act as a press agent for; promote: authors who tour the country flacking their books. (verb-transitive)
• Variant of flak. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Pardon my language but how in the flickitty-flack is choking and punching someone after you threaten to kill them a “mistake?”"
• "Back in April, the Department of Homeland Security caught a lot of flack from the right wing for issuing the memo that warned of "lone wolves" from both the extreme left and the right committing acts of terror just like this."
• "Now I am probably going to catch a lot of flack from the pseudo-EMO crowd that follows these novels like a bevy of groveling lemmings."