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.
- concours d'élégance
- concourse
- concrescence
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- concrete
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- concrete mixer
- concrete music
- concreteness
- concrete noun
- concrete poetry
- concrete universal
- concretion
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- concretism
- concretization
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- concubinage
- concubinary
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- concupiscence
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- concur