flak suit

American  

noun

U.S. Air Force.

1. a suit of two or more padded armored garments designed to protect the body from shrapnel.

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Etymology

Origin of flak suit

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

Yossarian unsnapped his flak suit and took off his helmet.

From Literature

Snowden was lying on his back on the floor with his legs stretched out, still burdened cumbersomely by his flak suit, his flak helmet, his parachute harness and his Mae West.

From Literature

After Kid Sampson’s legs, he would think of pitiful, whimpering Snowden freezing to death in the rear section of the plane, holding his eternal, immutable secret concealed inside his quilted, armor-plate flak suit until Yossarian had finished sterilizing and bandaging the wrong wound on his leg, and then spilling it out suddenly all over the floor.

From Literature

Yossarian bent forward to peer and saw a strangely colored stain seeping through the coveralls just above the armhole of Snowden’s flak suit.

From Literature

Snowden was wounded inside his flak suit.

From Literature