mouthpiece
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]mouthpiece (plural mouthpieces)
- A part of any device that functions in or near the mouth, especially:
- The part of a telephone that is held close to the mouth.
- The part of a wind instrument that is held in or against the mouth.
- A spokesman; one who speaks on behalf of someone else.
- The novel's protagonist serves as a mouthpiece for the author's political views.
- 2021 April 24, Adrian Horton, “‘The uprisings opened up the door’: the TV cop shows confronting a harmful legacy”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- Seeming “real” has been the aim since the earliest police procedurals, which began a long tradition of Hollywood productions acting as a mouthpiece for police departments.
- 2022 November 9, Verna Yu, “Xi Jinping tells China’s army to focus on preparation for war”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Xi Jinping has told the People’s Liberation Army to “focus all its energy on fighting” in preparation for war, a Chinese Communist party mouthpiece has reported.
- (slang) A lawyer for the defense.
Translations
[edit]part of a telephone
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part of a wind instrument
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spokesman who speaks on behalf of someone else
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lawyer for the defense
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