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Fracked vs Flacked - What's the difference?

fracked | flacked |

As verbs the difference between fracked and flacked

is that fracked is past tense of frack while flacked is past tense of flack.

fracked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (frack)

    • frack

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) hydrofracking.

    Verb

  • (oil industry) To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking )

    • Etymology 2

    Original and alternate spelling for (etyl) . See frak.

    Verb

  • (euphemistic) fuck.

    • References

    * Wikipedia frack. * Battlestarwiki frack

    flacked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flack)

    • flack

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To flutter; palpitate.
  • To hang loosely; flag.
  • To beat by flapping.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a publicist, a publicity agent
  • *1998 , , Art Crime: The Montage Art of Winston Smith , page 25
  • *:Edward Bernay, who was a consultant to the US Delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference which terminated the first World War (and who finally wound up as a flack for the United Fruit Company in Latin America), believed that propaganda and its covert marketing could effectively alter the will of the American public.
  • *1999 , Patricia Cornwell, The Southern Cross, page 233
  • *:Thought you were flack ," she said.
  • *:"I'm not flack ."
  • *:"All right, P.R., a reporter, a novelist."

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to publicise, to promote
  • * 1997 , Don DeLillo, Underworld :
    • [..] he told funny stories about his early days in the theater district, flacking shows up and down the street, but Klara wasn’t listening.

    Etymology 3

    Variant of flak.

    Noun