flak jacket

English

Noun

flak jacket (plural flak jackets)

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.

Translations

piece of protective clothing

• Finnish: sirpaleliivi
• French: gilet pare-éclats m

• Swedish: splitterskyddsväst c