flack catcher

flack catcher

English

Noun

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.