adfolk en · NOUN
Etymology
From ad + folk.
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) people in the advertising industry
The Mamas and Papas hit is the latest in a string of old tracks which have been reissued by record companies, a trend which owes a lot to the consideration paid by adfolk to the choice of music for commercials.
2015 July 21, Belinda Archer, “Blame it on the grapevine: from the archive, 21 July 1997”, in The Guardian: