flak-catcher
informal (originally US )
noun
One who deals with and deflects adverse or hostile comment, questions, etc., in order to protect a person or institution from unfavourable publicity; also transf.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in Tom Wolfe (b. 1931), journalist and novelist.
- melling
- Mellin inversion formula
- Mellin's inversion formula
- Mellin transform
- mellitate
- mellite
- mellitic acid
- mellitimide
- mellituria
- mellivorous
- mell of a hess
- Mellon, Andrew
- mellophone
- mellophonist
- mellophonium
- mellorine
- mellotron
- mellow
- mellowish
- mellowly
- mellowness
- mellowspeak
- mellowy
- mellow yellow
- mellyne