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flak jacket en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A special piece of clothing worn by soldiers to protect them from shrapnel and grenade fragments, other non-direct fire and battlefield debris. Sometimes used informally to connote any of the various forms of a bullet-proof vest.
   • By longstanding, bipartisan tradition, decades of White House press secretaries have handed down a cheeky symbol of their job fielding rat-a-tat inquiries from feisty reporters: a flak jacket. 2022 May 20, Michael M. Grynbaum, “White House Press Secretary Gets a New ‘Flak Jacket’: A Women’s Blazer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

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Relateds

bulletproof vest

Translations (6)

fr gilet pare-éclats (piece of protective clothing) · fi sirpaleliivi (piece of protective clothing) · pl but see kamizelka kuloodporna (piece of protective clothing) · ru бронежиле́т (piece of protective clothing) · es chaqueta flak (piece of protective clothing) · sv splitterskyddsväst (piece of protective clothing)