• Fall-guy

    Full definition of fall-guy

    Noun

    fall-guy

    (plural fall-guys)
      • 2005 , Linda Ruth Williams , The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema , 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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