white knight (English, noun)
expansion: white knight (plural white knights)
Senses:
topics: business
glosses: An individual or corporation that intends to acquire another company in order to avert a hostile takeover.
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A hero, savior, or righteous individual.
glosses: Someone who unnecessarily defends someone else.
tags: derogatory
figuratively
glosses: Someone who unnecessarily defends someone else.
A man who defends a woman in debate etc. in an attempt to gain her favour.
tags: Internet
derogatory
figuratively
informal
glosses: A mushroom of species Tricholoma album.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, knight.
Forms:
form: white knights
tags: plural
form: white-knight
tags: alternative
form: whiteknight
tags: alternative