flak jacket
noun
: a jacket containing metal plates for protection against flak
broadly
: a bulletproof vest
called also flak vest
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The tournament’s obstacles — like wearing a flak jacket and a helmet — are designed to help civilians better understand what the troops endure.
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Su Bacon, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2024
Noboa, wearing a helmet and a flak jacket, stood silently for a moment and contemplated the detainees.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
In a photograph shared by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s director general, a member of the U.N. team in blue helmet and flak jacket scoops a small baby gently from a hospital bed.
—Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
Peled now has to wear a flak jacket to visit his own kibbutz.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2023
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Su Bacon, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2024
Noboa, wearing a helmet and a flak jacket, stood silently for a moment and contemplated the detainees.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
In a photograph shared by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s director general, a member of the U.N. team in blue helmet and flak jacket scoops a small baby gently from a hospital bed.
—Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
Peled now has to wear a flak jacket to visit his own kibbutz.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2023
See all Example Sentences for flak jacket
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“Flak jacket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flak%20jacket. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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