Flak (disambiguation)

Flak refers to anti-aircraft gunfire, derived from the German "Flugabwehrkanone", for "aircraft defense cannon", during World War II.

Flak can also mean:
* Flak jacket, protective clothing worn by soldiers and others to protect themselves from debris and shrapnel
* Criticism, as a metaphorical extension of the previous, e.g. "I'll have to take the flak for what that confounded reporter dug up."
* "Flat land" or "flat sandbank", as a component of Germanic language area place names, e.g. Flakfortet
*Flak, a fictional Commanding Officer in the "Advance Wars" series
*"Flak Magazine", an American online magazine, founded in 1998

See also:
* FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), an audio data compression scheme