fall-guy

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fall-guy (plural fall-guys)

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

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