flak jacket
Americannoun
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U.S. Air Force. an armored garment made of steel plates covered by a padded fabric, designed to protect vital parts of the body from shrapnel.
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a protective vest, especially one that is bulletproof.
noun
Etymology
Origin of flak jacket
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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Wine, who has been repeatedly arrested in the past, campaigned in a flak jacket, saying the race has become a "war".
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
Wearing a bluish flak jacket emblazoned with the word “Press,” she was recently in a Rafah refugee camp reporting on the lack of women’s sanitary products.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
My children visit me when I'm working - they put on my flak jacket, my helmet, and we laugh together.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
A gray-haired Israeli woman was sandwiched on a motorbike between a driver in a flak jacket and a man with a rifle.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 7, 2023
That his controller wasn't a rifle and his raggedy family-reunion T-shirt wasn't a flak jacket.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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