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fall-guy en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form 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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