flak jacket
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[edit]Noun
[edit]flak jacket (plural flak jackets)
- 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.
- 2022 May 20, Michael M. Grynbaum, “White House Press Secretary Gets a New ‘Flak Jacket’: A Women’s Blazer”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]piece of protective clothing
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