flack catcher

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Noun

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flack catcher (plural flack catchers)

  1. Alternative form of flak catcher
    • 1986, Bill Lee, Pragmatics of Community Organization, page 129:
      As indicated above it is frustrating and a waste of time to talk to a "flack catcher" who has no authority.
    • 2005, Béla Szabados, Once Upon a Time in the West:
      It was my first experience with the phenomenon that would later be called "mau-mauing the flack catcher."
    • 2011, Peter J Miele, Baptism of Fire:
      The flack catcher's job is to try to entangle them in their tricky game of catch questions.