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contact man

British  

noun

  1. an intermediary or go-between

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But after being swept by the Dodgers this weekend in a series that saw key contact man Jake Cronenworth leave Friday’s game with a broken finger and Blake Snell walk abruptly off the mound Sunday with adductor tightness, the Padres are hanging on for dear life.

From Washington Post

“They say we can radicalize them easily, and if they have no prior record, they can buy guns, so we don’t need to have no contact man who has to provide guns for them.”

From New York Times

Yet more important was Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's behind-the-scenes role as the Scaf's contact man with the Muslim Brotherhood, also assigned by Field Marshal Tantawi.

From BBC

We tested their boundaries by play wrestling and were swiftly wrist slapped by a hail of shrill whistle blasts and informed, over a loudspeaker no less, that there is “no person-to-person contact, man to woman, woman to woman, or man to man.”

From New York Times

He posed as a contact man for the U.G.T., and then he'd lead the Germans straight to the French police and notify the German Embassy.

From Project Gutenberg