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fall-guy en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of fall guy.
    alt of fall guy
    • Here, then, feminisation is an effect of both the sexual glamourisation the fall-guy undergoes and his systematic disempowerment. 2005, Linda Ruth Williams, The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, page 110:
    • 'He takes risks, especially when the potential fall-guy is someone else. 2011, Phil Rickman, Curfew:
    • About the time you boys get close to home they'll decide they need a fall-guy, and you'll be elected, Fred. 2014, Erle Stanley Gardner, Murder Up My Sleeve:

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