flack

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He knows was only a flack -- a tool of other men.

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  1. noun A press agent; a publicist.
  2. intransitive verb To act as a press agent: flacking for a movie studio.
  3. transitive verb To act as a press agent for; promote: authors who tour the country flacking their books.
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  1. from Middle English flacken, flutter, palpitate, = Old Dutch vlacken, flicker, flash, sparkle (Kilian), = Icelandic flakka = Danish flakke = Swedish flacka, rove about; cf. Icelandic flaka, flap, hang loose; Swedish flaxa, flutter. Hence the common English form (with sonant g for surd k) flag, q. v., and the freq. flacker, q. v.
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