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| to refuse to serve at a bar or restaurant; to be thrown out of or forbidden from an establishment |
| a phenomenon, especially a young prodigy |
| 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] | |
spin doctor definition
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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."