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spin doctor
noun
Slang. a press agent skilled at spin control.
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| spin doctor | |
| —n | |
| informal a person who provides a favourable slant to an item of news, potentially unpopular policy, etc, esp on behalf of a political personality or party | |
| [C20: from the spin given to a ball in various sports to make it go in the desired direction] | |
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Spin doctor
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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spin doctor
An individual charged with getting others to interpret a statement or event from a particular viewpoint, as in Charlie is the governor's spin doctor. This term, born about 1980 along with spin control, uses doctor in the colloquial sense of "one who repairs something."
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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