fall guy

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(especially AmE) a person who is blamed or punished for sth wrong that sb else has done SYNSCAPEGOAT

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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fall guy