backroom boy

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   an expert adviser involved in making important decisions but usually lacking official status

   Synonymsbrain truster

   Broaderadviser

Questions about backroom boy

What does backroom boy mean?

backroom boy means "an expert adviser involved in making important decisions but usually lacking official status".

What is another word for backroom boy?

Close synonyms include brain truster. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is backroom boy a common word?

backroom boy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.