flack-catcher

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English

Noun

flack-catcher (plural flack-catchers)

  1. Alternative form of flak catcher.
    • 1972, Man & Nature:
      The biography of Edward S. Gruson states that “after being flack-catcher to the president of Harvard University during the recent years of student and community unrest,” the author searched for a totally irrelevant area of study and ended up writing Words for Birds.
    • 1993, Dean Tjosvold, Learning to Manage Conflict:
      I don't think I'm cut out to be a flack-catcher."
    • 1998, William Thomas, Peter Tompkins, Christopher C Bird, Bringing the War Home, page 240:
      A top tobacco industry PR man, Smith had spent 15 years as senior flack-catcher for Phillip Morris.