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fall guy definition

☆ fall guy

Slang a person made the victim, or left to face the consequences, of a scheme that has miscarried

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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