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- verb Present participle of
flack .
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Examples
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The second rule of press flacking is Never Let Them Catch You In A Lie.
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There is nothing about pornography that is 'normal', no matter how much it is flacked as hip / okay / what-have-you - the flacking is the money-laundering part of the scam. beverlyshaffer
Women's Space 2008
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We've never accused you of 'flacking', we've simply said that you are a FLACK.
Latest Articles 2010
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We heard about Komen flacking for unsafe drugs like Avastin, and partnering with the evangelicals to distribute those pink Bibles.
Ellen R. Shaffer: Um, the Other Thing About Komen and Planned Parenthood... Ellen R. Shaffer 2012
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"If I'd have known that Regan was going to be doing such a bad job flacking for me, I would've assigned somebody else," he said.
HUFFPOST HILL - 112th Congress Back-And-Forth Begins Eliot Nelson 2011
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Now she's reduced to flacking for President Obama's "create or save (fill in the the number here) jobs" from the stimulus bill meme, using nothing other than chutzpah to produce her numbers.
Rock Bottom 2009
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She is not some pretty girl in a business suit, flacking for her governor like some other AG I know.
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We heard about Komen flacking for unsafe drugs like Avastin, and partnering with the evangelicals to distribute those pink Bibles.
Ellen R. Shaffer: Um, the Other Thing About Komen and Planned Parenthood... Ellen R. Shaffer 2012
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Republicans are almost always flacking for Wall Street.
Richard Cordray Nomination Blocked By Senate Republicans, Obama Hints At Recess Appointment (UPDATE) 2011
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"If I'd have known that Regan was going to be doing such a bad job flacking for me, I would've assigned somebody else," he said.
HUFFPOST HILL - 112th Congress Back-And-Forth Begins Eliot Nelson 2011
chained_bear commented on the word flacking
"...within the minute there was an all-pervading roar of sails flacking and slatting as they spilt the wind—a horrible sound."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 81
OED:
1. intr. To flap, flutter; to flap the wings; to throb, palpitate.
2. To hang loosely. dial.
3. trans. To move or shake intermittently; to flap, flick; also, to flap or flick with (something). (Connoting a clumsier instrument and a ‘flatter’ blow than flick.)
4. Agric. To beat with a flail; also to rake (hay).
Hence flacking vbl. n., the action of the vb.
February 29, 2008