Other forms: cover-ups
A cover-up is an organised effort to hide a scandal. Expose a cover-up.
It nearly always causes more damage than whatever was being hidden. A cover-up needs more people to keep quiet every week it goes on, which is why they fail.
1nouncover-upAn organised effort to hide a scandal.
“The newspaper exposed a cover-up at the highest levels of government.”
cover-up is a concealment.
Deverbal from cover up.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA