flack-catcher
English
editNoun
editflack-catcher (plural flack-catchers)
- 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.